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. This intimate and devastating book traces her relationship to the English language, to shame and depression, to poetry and female friendship. With sly humor and a poet's searching mind, Hong uses her own story as a portal into a deeper examination of racial consciousness in America today. Minor feelings are not small, they're dissonant-and in their tension Hong finds the key to the questions that haunt her. She would later understand that these "minor feelings" occur when American optimism contradicts your own reality-when you believe the lies you're told about your own racial identity.
Binding these essays together is Hong's theory of "minor feelings." As the daughter of Korean immigrants, Cathy Park Hong grew up steeped in shame, suspicion, and melancholy. Part memoir and part cultural criticism, this collection is vulnerable, humorous, and provocative-and its relentless and riveting pursuit of vital questions around family and friendship, art and politics, identity and individuality, will change the way you think about our world. To read this book is to become more human."-Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen In development as a television series starring and adapted by Greta Lee - One of Time's 10 Best Nonfiction Books of the Year - Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, New Statesman, BuzzFeed, Esquire, The New York Public Library, and Book Riot Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose fresh truths about racialized consciousness in America. confronts this thorny subject, blending memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose the truth of racialized consciousness in America"-īook Synopsis NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST - NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - ONE OF TIME'S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE - A ruthlessly honest, emotionally charged, and utterly original exploration of Asian American consciousness "Brilliant. But in reality, this is the most economically divided group in the country, a tenuous alliance of people with roots from South Asia to East Asia to the Pacific Islands, from tech millionaires to service industry laborers. In the popular imagination, Asian Americans are all high-achieving professionals.
About the Book "Asian Americans inhabit a purgatorial status: neither white enough nor black enough, unmentioned in most conversations about racial identity.
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