With sly humor and a poet’s searching mind, Kathy Park Hong uses her own story as a portal into a deeper examination of racial consciousness in America today. This intimate and devastating book traces her relationship to the English language, to shame and depression, to poetry and female friendship. A radically honest work of art, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning 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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