{"product_id":"minor-feelings-an-asian-american-reckoning-9781984820389","title":"Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER - PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST - NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e- ONE OF \u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e'S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e- A ruthlessly honest, emotionally charged, and utterly original exploration of Asian American consciousness\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Brilliant . . . To read this book is to become more human.\"--Claudia Rankine, author of \u003ci\u003eCitizen\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn development as a television series starring and adapted by Greta Lee -\u003c\/b\u003e One of \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e's 10 Best Nonfiction Books of the Year - Named One of the Best Books of the Year by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, The Washington Post, \u003c\/i\u003e NPR, \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman, BuzzFeed, Esquire, \u003c\/i\u003e The New York Public Library, and \u003ci\u003eBook Riot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose fresh truths about racialized consciousness in America. Part memoir and part cultural criticism, this collection is vulnerable, humorous, and provocative--and its relentless and riveting pursuit of vital questions around family and friendship, art and politics, identity and individuality, will change the way you think about our world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Binding these essays together is Hong's theory of \"minor feelings.\" As the daughter of Korean immigrants, Cathy Park Hong grew up steeped in shame, suspicion, and melancholy. 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. Minor feelings are not small, they're dissonant--and in their tension Hong finds the key to the questions that haunt her. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With sly humor and a poet's searching mind, Hong uses her own story as a portal into a deeper examination of racial consciousness in America today. This intimate and devastating book traces her relationship to the English language, to shame and depression, to poetry and female friendship. A radically honest work of art, \u003ci\u003eMinor Feelings\u003c\/i\u003e forms a portrait of one Asian American psyche--and of a writer's search to both uncover and speak the truth. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eMinor Feelings\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Hong begins her new book of essays with a bang. . . .The essays wander a variegated terrain of memoir, criticism and polemic, oscillating between smooth proclamations of certainty and twitches of self-doubt. . . . \u003ci\u003eMinor Feelings\u003c\/i\u003e is studded with moments [of] candor and dark humor shot through with glittering self-awareness.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Hong uses her own experiences as a jumping off point to examine race and emotion in the United States.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Powerful . . . [Hong] brings together memoiristic personal essay and reflection, historical accounts and modern reporting, and other works of art and writing, in order to amplify a multitude of voices and capture Asian America as a collection of contradictions. She does so with sharp wit and radical transparency.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eSalon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cathy Park Hong\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e One World\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/02\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e One World Essentials\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.4lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781984820389","brand":"Ripon Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44150166552621,"sku":"9781984820389","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0681\/0501\/1245\/files\/img_93ba5a50-45a3-4b86-8d94-e63faef76e75.jpg?v=1757311858","url":"https:\/\/riponbookstore.com\/products\/minor-feelings-an-asian-american-reckoning-9781984820389","provider":"Ripon Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}