laura_thereflectivebookshelf 's review for:

Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir by Eddie Huang

4.0

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I picked up this memoir because I loved the TV show and it was so much better than I expected it to be! Eddie Huang is hilarious, smart, genuine, and interesting. His life story is unique and universal at the same time. His perspective on what it means to be American is one that needs to be heard. Huang ends his memoir with this excellent advice, “I didn’t allow America to sell me in a box with presets and neither should you. Take the things from America that speak to you, that excite you, that inspire you, and be the Americans we all want to know...”