Betty Yu’s *Family Amnesia* brings together the present-day and historical stories of immigrant workers in the United States, placing the continuing consequences of the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act at the center of its inquiry. Published by Daylight Books in 2023, the book addresses a painful and formative chapter in American history while asking how that history persists within Chinese immigrant experience.

Its approach is both historical and personal. Rather than treating exclusion as a closed legal episode, Yu reclaims the narrative through the story of her own family, connecting public policy with inherited memory and lived experience. That movement between collective history and intimate testimony gives the book its particular force: the subject is not only what happened to Chinese immigrants, but also how those events continue to shape the ways families understand, preserve, or lose their past.

For a collector, *Family Amnesia* merits attention as a contemporary photobook grounded in documentary and historical concerns without separating them from personal authorship. Its significance lies in the way it brings immigrant labor, racial legislation, family history, and memory into a single photographic project. At 112 pages, this English-language hardcover is a focused monograph whose subject reaches beyond one family, addressing a continuing American condition through a distinctly situated voice.

The book’s title is especially telling: “amnesia” suggests not an absence of history, but the pressures that make history difficult to retain or publicly acknowledge. Yu’s work therefore belongs to an important strand of photographic practice that uses the family archive and personal narrative to reconsider national memory. For readers and collectors attentive to books where historical investigation and lived inheritance meet, *Family Amnesia* offers a serious, concentrated contribution.