sophiaeck 's review for:

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong

4.0

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i deferred partly for this review to an Asian American bookstagrammer i follow because i feel she is a better resource for rating a book about how it is to live as an Asian American in America. she expressed a distaste at Hongs aestheticism of many political narratives and said that perhaps someone else would be better suited to exploring the topics better, which i can agree for some of the essays would be true. i think towards the end half of the book, Hong descended into writing in a more biographical and autobiographical sense instead of sociological and that for me made the book feel like the essays didn’t all go together as well as they could’ve, but as the book is listed under all of these subsequent genres, i guess it did not subvert what it claimed to be in the first place and these problems are simply of my own opinion. i think a lot of the sentiments in this book will resonate with a wife variety of people despite them being written in regards to racial politics, and i think Hong writes a hard to encompass subject in a very accessible way. this book is, as expressed by the bookstagrammer i referred to, a good representation of what it means to be a child of immigrants in the 21st century, and i think it’s worth the read.