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Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir by Eddie Huang

2.0

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This book offers a fascinating (and occasionally funny) look at the experiences of first- and second-generation Taiwanese-Chinese immigrants trying to make a life in Virginia and Florida in the 1980s and 1990s. But I was turned off by the author’s not-so-subtle misogyny (ironically often expressed in the same sentence in which he’s upbraiding Americans for their very rampant racism!) and his casual endorsement of retributive violence as a way to deal with the (very real) racism he encountered as a child and teenager. Wouldn’t recommend.