Description: Lyrical, hilarious, and heartbreaking collection exploring Asian American identity, love, community, and power.
Brief description: Frances Kai-Hwa Wang is an award-winning poet, essayist, journalist, activist, scholar focused on issues of Asian America, race, justice, and the arts. Her writing has appeared in online publications at PBS NewsHour, NBCAsianAmerica, PRIGlobalNation, Center for Asian American Media, and Detroit Journalism Cooperative and in Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Kartika Review, Drunken Boat, Joao Roque Literary Journal. She co-created a multimedia artwork for Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, and she is a Knight Arts Challenge Detroit artist.
Review Quotes:
The book is full of life, a celebration of things that make it worth living -- including, but not limited to, food, make-outs, and friendship. While dense with layers of human experience, it's a quick read because the rhythms of Wang's direct language draw readers swiftly along. The prose-poetry format allows Wang to skip without preamble straight from one poignant moment to another, with her eyes open to the simple pleasures, profound mysteries, and lurking terrors of the human experience.
--Jay Gabler "The Tangential"