Sink
Book description
"A brilliant and brilliantly different" (Kiese Laymon), wrenching and redemptive coming-of-age memoir about the difficulty of growing up in a hazardous home and the glory of finding salvation in geek culture. Stranded within an ever-shifting family's desperate but volatile attempts to love, saddled with a mercurial mother mired in crack…
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Now that both of my kids have enrolled in college, I often wonder: What if I hadn't raised them as most of the conventional suburban Chinese parents did? What if I had indulged in drinking, partying, writing poetry, and eloping with crazy artists? Would I have ruined them?
The idea of the road not taken drew me to Sink. Look at the dysfunctional household Joey grew up in: "all his family's problems...crack + angry man." But thanks to geek culture's interconnected worlds and ability to diminish the economic disparities between different social groups, Joey grew up with self-awareness, confidence,…
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