A review by pippinhart
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong

challenging emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

This book is brilliant and affecting in a lot of ways, but what I loved most is how Cathy Park Hong writes about doubt––deliberating about where, and how, to tread on dilemmas with no right answers. She lets questions linger in the air, allowing the reading experience to end unsettled, which is precisely how it feels to ask after race in the United States: few statements can be made that don't exclude, or homogenize, or erase, and harm done tends to hover, unresolved. Minor Feelings can be painful to read at times, but it should be. It doesn't pander, it doesn't coddle, it doesn't soothe. It just burns.