![]() ![]() ![]() At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is also a brutally honest exploration of race, class, and masculinity. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family’s history that began before he was born - a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam - and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong This book traces her relationship to the English language, to shame and depression, to poetry and artmaking, and to family and female friendship in a search to both uncover and speak the truth. Hong uses her own story as a portal into a deeper examination of racial consciousness in America today. She would later understand that these “minor feelings” occur when American optimism contradicts your own reality-when you believe the lies you’re told about your own racial identity. Binding these essays together is Hong’s theory of “minor feelings.”Īs the daughter of Korean immigrants, Cathy Park Hong grew up steeped in shame, suspicion, and melancholy. Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose the truth of racialized consciousness in America. Playful but heartfelt, a send-up of Hollywood tropes and Asian stereotypes- Interior Chinatown is Charles Yu’s most moving, daring, and masterful novel yet. Or is it?Īfter stumbling into the spotlight, Willis finds himself launched into a wider world than he’s ever known, discovering not only the secret history of Chinatown, but the buried legacy of his own family, and what that means for him, in today’s America. but he dreams of being Kung Fu Guy-the highest aspiration he can imagine for a Chinatown denizen. Every day, he leaves his tiny room in a Chinatown SRO and enters the Golden Palace restaurant, where Black and White, a procedural cop show, is in perpetual production. Willis Wu doesn’t perceive himself as a protagonist even in his own life: he’s merely Generic Asian Man. ![]() Without further ado, here are the titles up for consideration: We’ll be doing a ranked vote to narrow our selections down, but as usual I hope you find more than one interesting selection in our group below.Make sure you scroll all the way down in order to vote! Voting will remain open until Thursday March 3rd at midnight, EST. Here at Cannonball Read we’ll be celebrating its 30th anniversary by focusing on authors who fall within the roughly 50 ethnic groups with roots in more than 40 countries who comprise the AAPI, and their stories for our first book club of the year. May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (or AAPIHM for short) in the United States and was created by Congress in 1992. The votes have been counted and Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo is the selection for the May 2022 AAPI-themed book club! Learn how book club works and when you can join in on the discussion in the announcement post. ![]()
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