Far From Home: Shattering the Myth of the Model Minority by Mary Chung Hayashi [in AsianWeek]
28 Nov, by in Adult Readers, Korean American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost
Part memoir, part activist handbook, part medical advice column, Hayashi who is the founder of the National Asian Women’s Health Organization, "breaks the silence” of her own history, debunks the myth of...
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