A review by hienl
Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir by Eddie Huang

2.0

It's very easy to get lost in the cursory name-dropping of childhood friends or cultural icons followed by directionless nostalgia. Although I like the voice with which he writes, too much just gets buried in 90s slang and references to the materialism of that era. Parents are fully fleshed out in the stories, but nearly everyone else (friends, brothers, other family) get very shallow one-sentence summaries like "dude always had my back." In fact, the Jordan Vs are described in more detail than most of the people in the book.