Everything you need to understand or teach The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford.
The Many Daughters of Afong Moy, by Jamie Ford, is a work of speculative fiction which alternates between past and future in telling the stories of its multiple protagonists, across three continents. The novel takes a real-life historical figure, Afong Moy, for its imaginative starting-point, inventing a line of descendants for her and exploring the connections between these women, from 1836 to 2086. Using a third-person point of view, the novel focuses mainly on Dorothy, a troubled poet coming to terms with her family history by means of experimental therapy. The novel engages with epigenetic theory and covers themes of memory, trauma, karma, and social injustice.
The Many Daughters of Afong Moy Lesson Plans contain 158 pages of teaching material, including:
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