The much-anticipated follow-up to So I Rise...Maria-Karmina Landicho rose. She got into the rooms. She earned the credentials, the awards, the title, the seat at the table her immigrant parents had crossed an ocean to give her access to. By every external measure, she had arrived.Then, somewhere over the Atlantic in a leather seat wider than her childhood bed, she felt nothing.Head to the Sky is the unflinching, lyrical, sometimes funny memoir of what happens after the rising. A Filipino American daughter's reckoning with ambition, identity, and the particular emptiness that lives inside achievement when the achievement was never actually the point. From the Floating Village of Koh Kong in Cambodia, to the rooftop of Los Angeles City Hall, from the bullying her mother quietly survived to the love that finally interrupted her over-functioning machine, this is the kind of memoir that doesn't end in resolution - because the most important stories never do.For readers of Cheryl Strayed, Michelle Obama, Tara Westover, Cathy Park Hong, and any woman who has ever wondered if making it was supposed to feel like more than this.The dream we inherited brought us here. Here is not the end. Here is where the real becoming begins.
The much-anticipated follow-up to So I Rise...Maria-Karmina Landicho rose. She got into the rooms. She earned the credentials, the awards, the title, the seat at the table her immigrant parents had crossed an ocean to give her access to. By every external measure, she had arrived.Then, somewhere over the Atlantic in a leather seat wider than her childhood bed, she felt nothing.Head to the Sky is the unflinching, lyrical, sometimes funny memoir of what happens after the rising. A Filipino American daughter's reckoning with ambition, identity, and the particular emptiness that lives inside achievement when the achievement was never actually the point. From the Floating Village of Koh Kong in Cambodia, to the rooftop of Los Angeles City Hall, from the bullying her mother quietly survived to the love that finally interrupted her over-functioning machine, this is the kind of memoir that doesn't end in resolution - because the most important stories never do.For readers of Cheryl Strayed, Michelle Obama, Tara Westover, Cathy Park Hong, and any woman who has ever wondered if making it was supposed to feel like more than this.The dream we inherited brought us here. Here is not the end. Here is where the real becoming begins.
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