Minor Feelings
Book description
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHY 2021
A New York Times Top Book of 2020
Chosen as a Guardian BOOK OF 2020
A BBC Culture Best Books of 2020
Nominated for Good Reads Books of 2020
One of Time's Must-Read Books of 2020
'Unputdownable ... Hong's…
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2 authors picked Minor Feelings as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
In this book, Park Hong unflinchingly excavates the silencing of marginalized people in American literature and culture at large, and articulates how one whose stories have been muted might find a way to speak and make themselves heard. By shining light—and not just any light, but a brilliantly sharp analytical beam—on people whose experiences and stories have been systemically dismissed or silenced, Park Hong offers expansive possibilities for our own lives, both private and public, and the political implications therein.
From Sara's list on the stories we tell about women.
This book is itchy. It makes you scratch at thoughts, intuitions, and feelings you may have not resolved for yourself but always knew were there.
Cathy Park Hong explores Asian Americanness in the most micro and ‘minor’ of ways, and in turn creates an entirely macro and major experience. It’s a deeply funny, sobering, and vulnerable read.
From Vichet's list on to feel alive, awesome and Asian American.
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