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Exceptional.
Cutting analysis of white supremacy. Laugh out loud moments. Moving stories centered around family histories, traumas, and love.
Cutting analysis of white supremacy. Laugh out loud moments. Moving stories centered around family histories, traumas, and love.
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If you’re looking for story-telling like Crying in HMart, this is not it. But it’s not supposed to be. If you don’t know Young-Mi’s humor I can see this book being off-putting. But I’ve enjoyed her sarcastic and bluntness on TikTok so I knew what I was getting into. I also relate to being Half Korean and Half American and it was interesting that her experience is different from most. I appreciated some of the history/cultural references she explained that give more context on things I never knew about. She has been through some shit that she doesn’t go in too deep, but is surprising and clear that it has made her to the person many people drawn to.
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I really enjoyed this, though it was heart-wrenching at the beginning.
I read this via audiobook which I think added to the experience, as did listening to some portions of the book while high.
The immediate comparison is “Crying in H-Mart,” of whom the author gives a blurb on the cover of this book. I feel Youngmi Mayer did a better, more thorough job reflecting on her “Asianness” for short. And she’s been a weirdo online long enough to see the real frustration and sadness of being Asian American in western countries (I’m looking at the horrible Asian incels on Reddit!!!).
A great book to close out my year honestly.
I read this via audiobook which I think added to the experience, as did listening to some portions of the book while high.
The immediate comparison is “Crying in H-Mart,” of whom the author gives a blurb on the cover of this book. I feel Youngmi Mayer did a better, more thorough job reflecting on her “Asianness” for short. And she’s been a weirdo online long enough to see the real frustration and sadness of being Asian American in western countries (I’m looking at the horrible Asian incels on Reddit!!!).
A great book to close out my year honestly.
first book of 2025! off to a strong start.
(review to come / thanks to the publisher for the e-arc)
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Absolutely astonishing - made me laugh and cry in equal measure. Youngmi Mayer broke my heart and I’m eternally grateful for it
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wow a really fantastic read to start off the year. I'm really glad to have read this via audio, Youngmi Mayer's vocal performance is truly so funny, full of life, and devastating. I even cracked up listening to her read the end credits. I'm a casual fan but was really wowed by this book, genuinely funny, heartbreaking, and nuanced. honestly I usually don't love when memoirs go into childhood memories, but youngmi has clearly done a lot of processing about her life, and tells stories about her youth that are entertaining but also tie into meaningful observations about life, culture, and how she came to be the person she is today. she is not shy about the many ways her parents failed her; but also demonstrates a level of compassion and understanding towards them that clearly involved many many years of therapy (#goals??). i really loved seeing her perspective of korean culture and actually learned a ton. the chapters in her adult life are honestly really juicy, and I actually really appreciated her stating outright that she experienced a number of tramatic things like sexual assault, and she didn't want to get into it in the book, but she wanted to name it. not the first sad-funny book i've ever read, but perhaps the best? and one that really plumbs the relationship between sadness and humor, and makes it feel profound? I am definitely picking up a print copy to revisit and annotate.
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Heartbreakingly beautiful and extremely well-written. I used to listen to the Feeling Asian podcast. I'm happy for Youngmi Mayer and am so grateful she shared her legacy with the world.