Minor Feelings
An Asian American Reckoning
by Cathy Park Hong
Recommended by Jia Tolentino and Celeste Ng
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Autobiographies and Nonfiction.
A ruthlessly honest, emotionally charged exploration of the psychological condition of being Asian American, by an awardwinning poet and essayist Asian Americans inhabit a purgatorial status: neither white enough nor black enough, unmentioned in most conversations about racial identity. In the popular imagination, Asian Americans are all highachi...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Autobiographies and Nonfiction.
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Jia Tolentino
“Basically every line in this book is worth quoting. | I read Minor Feelings in a fugue of enveloping recognition and distancing flinch. The question of lovability, and desirability, is freighted for Asian men and Asian women in very different ways and Minor Feelings serves as a case study in how a feminist point of view can both deepen an inquiry and widen its resonances to something like universality.”
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