{"id":46408,"date":"2020-01-30T11:12:09","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T16:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=46408"},"modified":"2020-01-29T09:31:03","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T14:31:03","slug":"minor-feelings-an-asian-american-reckoning-by-cathy-park-hong-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/minor-feelings-an-asian-american-reckoning-by-cathy-park-hong-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-46255\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/Minor-Feelings-Cathy-Park-Hong-BookDragon-530x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/Minor-Feelings-Cathy-Park-Hong-BookDragon-530x800.jpg 530w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/Minor-Feelings-Cathy-Park-Hong-BookDragon.jpg 659w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><strong>*STARRED REVIEW<\/strong><br \/>\nTitle aside, nothing is minor about Cathy Park Hong\u2019s taut, sharp collection. The award-winning poet\u2019s prose debut will elicit comparisons to contemporary race-conscious luminaries \u2013 think Claudine Rankine, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Roxane Gay \u2013 but Hong\u2019s singular voice expresses both reclamation and declaration: \u201cFor as long as I can remember, I have struggled to prove myself into existence &#8230; Asian Americans inhabit a vague purgatorial status: not white enough nor black enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Seven stupendous essays mark her journey toward claiming agency. She exposes collective Asian American history and spotlights today\u2019s racially charged complicity in \u201cUnited.\u201d She channels Richard Pryor\u2019s raw energy and the manipulations of L.A.\u2019s 1992 race riots in \u201cStand Up.\u201d She unmasks white fragility in \u201cEnd of White Innocence,\u201d and she subverts language in \u201cBad English.\u201d Hong reveals intimate female friendships in \u201cAn Education,\u201d confronts the brutal rape and murder of iconic artist Theresa Hak-Kyung Cha in \u201cPortrait of an Artist,\u201d and refuses to be grateful in \u201cThe Indebted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>L.A.-born to Korean immigrant parents, Hong creates a fierce amalgamation comprised of careful memoir, radical history, sociopolitical treatise, and revolutionary call-out. Being \u201cwoke,\u201d she notes, is already \u201ca hashtag that\u2019s now mocked, when being awake is not a singular revelation but a long-term commitment fueled by constant reevaluation.\u201d Apologetic no more, Hong proves, \u201cWe\u2019re everywhere now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/Minor-Feelings-An-Asian-American-Reckoning-Cathy-Park-Hong\/pid=9727658\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">&#8220;Nonfiction,&#8221; <em>Booklist<\/em>, January 1, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*STARRED REVIEW Title aside, nothing is minor about Cathy Park Hong\u2019s taut, sharp collection. The award-winning poet\u2019s prose debut will elicit comparisons to contemporary race-conscious luminaries \u2013 think Claudine Rankine, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Roxane Gay \u2013 but Hong\u2019s singular voice expresses both reclamation and declaration:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,38,20,6535],"tags":[83,6608,6668,8892,22,24,51,25,8893,28,29,364],"class_list":["post-46408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-korean-american","category-nonfiction","category-repost","tag-assimilation","tag-bookdragon","tag-booklist","tag-cathy-park-hong","tag-civil-rights","tag-historical","tag-identity","tag-immigration","tag-minor-feelings","tag-politics","tag-race-racism","tag-sociology"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong [in Booklist] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/minor-feelings-an-asian-american-reckoning-by-cathy-park-hong-in-booklist\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong [in Booklist] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"*STARRED REVIEW Title aside, nothing is minor about Cathy Park Hong\u2019s taut, sharp collection. 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