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San Francisco Woman Channels Pain Of Mother's Death From Botched Surgery Into Art, Activism
"It really did take putting on a one-woman show and writing the book to just feel close and to know her (mother)," said Lieu.
March 28, 2024
When Susan Lieu was 11-years old, her mother died of a botched plastic surgery in 1996 by a San Francisco doctor who had numerous complaints against him and had his license to practice suspended by the California Medical Board.
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Phoung Ha, known by her American name Jennifer, had owned two successful nail salons. And as a Vietnamese American immigrant she had made a comfortable life for her family.
Lieu began expressing the trauma, pain, and healing with a one woman show "140lbs: How Beauty Killed My Mother" in 2019, and now she has put her personal journey into the pages of a new book, "The Manicurist's Daughter" that was released earlier this month.
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Phoung Ha with her daugher, Susan. Ha, who was also known as Jennifer, died of a botched plastic surgery in 1996/CBS
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