TY  - GEN
AU  - Hong, Cathy Park
TI  - Minor feelings: a reckoning on race and the Asian condition
SN  - 9781788165594
U1  - 305.4889 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - London
PB  -  Profile Books
KW  - United States
KW  - Asian American women
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Ethnic relations
N1  - Originally published: New York: One World, 2020
N2  - 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 What happens when an immigrant believes the lies they're told about their own racial identity? For Cathy Park Hong, they experience the shame and difficulty of "minor feelings". The daughter of Korean immigrants, Cathy Park Hong grew up in America steeped in shame, suspicion, and melancholy. She would later understand that these "minor feelings" occur when American optimism contradicts your own reality. With sly humour and a poet's searching mind, Hong uses her own story as a portal into a deeper examination of racial consciousness. This intimate and devastating book traces her relationship to the English language, to shame and depression, to poetry and artmaking, and to family and female friendship. A radically honest work of art, Minor Feelings forms a portrait of one Asian American psyche - and of a writer's search to both uncover and speak the truth
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