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tora76 's review for:
Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir
by Eddie Huang
This was okay. For a book about someone who's a chef, I expected more food stuff, but it's more about getting high, getting in fights, fashion, shoes, and hiphop than it is about food. I tend to mostly like autobiographies when they're funny and for all Eddie apparently was a comedian for some time, the book really isn't that funny. And it's all told from this macho straight guy POV that I find really exhausting to read.
It's also nothing like the show, which I did know going in. If you like the show and are looking to read this for more of that, just don't. :p The Huangs on TV are a typical sitcom family who have typical sitcom problems that get solved in an episode and although they have fights and misunderstandings, everyone really loves each other. In real life, Eddie's parents' marriage was unhappy, his dad (and sometimes his mom) beat the kids, and Eddie was a troubled child who got in fights and one time beat another kid so bad he was sent to juvie. That would have been a pretty interesting show, too, but it would have been a gritty drama. I have no idea why they decided to make it a sitcom...
It's also nothing like the show, which I did know going in. If you like the show and are looking to read this for more of that, just don't. :p The Huangs on TV are a typical sitcom family who have typical sitcom problems that get solved in an episode and although they have fights and misunderstandings, everyone really loves each other. In real life, Eddie's parents' marriage was unhappy, his dad (and sometimes his mom) beat the kids, and Eddie was a troubled child who got in fights and one time beat another kid so bad he was sent to juvie. That would have been a pretty interesting show, too, but it would have been a gritty drama. I have no idea why they decided to make it a sitcom...