Jane Wong

Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

2024 PNBA Award Winner "[Wong] paints her story with flourish."―The New York Times "A love letter to Atlantic City and the Asian American working class."―The Los Angeles Times "Blazing, lyrical."―The Boston Globe "Joyful. . . . Wong's memoir invites those who have been overlooked in America to hold up their verses, accolades and solidarity in a collective rejoinder to their detractors."―The Washington Post An incandescent, exquisitely written memoir about family, food, girlhood, resistance, and growing up in a Chinese American restaurant on the Jersey shore. In the late 1980s on the Jersey shore, Jane Wong watches her mother shake ants from an MSG bin behind the family's Chinese restaurant. She is a hungry daughter frying crab rangoon for lunch, a child sneaking naps on bags of rice, a playful sister scheming to trap her brother in the freezer before he traps her first. Jane is part of a family staking their claim to the American dream, even as this dream crumbles. Beneath Atlantic City's promise lies her father's gambling addiction, an addiction that causes him to disappear for days and ultimately leads to the loss of the restaurant. In her debut memoir, Jane Wong tells a new story about Atlantic City, one that resists a single identity, a single story as she writes about making do with what you have-and what you don't. What does it mean, she asks, to be both tender and angry? What is strength without vulnerability-and humor? Filled with beauty found in unexpected places, Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City is a resounding love song of the Asian American working class, a portrait of how we become who we are, and a story of lyric wisdom to hold and to share.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Zando
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781953534743
• Artikelnr.: 76070988

Autorenporträt

Jane Wong is the author of the poetry collections How to Not Be Afraid of Everything and Overpour. An associate professor of creative writing at Western Washington University, she grew up in New Jersey and currently lives in Seattle, Washington.

Inhaltsangabe

Colonialism / 1
Trace Evidence
“Mulatto” :: “Quadroon” / 5
Imago / 8
Thirty-Third Year / 9
Encounter / 10
Control / 11
Clot / 13
Talking with My Boss about Diversity and Inclusion / 15
Countertransference /16
Self-Determination with the Question of Race / 18
Infidelity / 19
Not the Whole Thing, but a Large Part of the Story / 20
Trace Evidence / 21
Two Rooms Down the Hall / 22
In the Basement of Sears & Roebuck When for the First Time I Pulled My Hand
from Her Hand and Fled / 24
Exile / 25
Race / 26
My People / 28
Inner Children / 30
On the Overnight from Agadir / 35
Little Red Lighthouse
Little Red Lighthouse / 55
While I Wash My Face I Ask Impossible Questions of Myself and Those Who
Love Me / 60
Psychotherapy / 62
Thirty-Fifth Year / 63
On Exiting Universitätsspital Zürich, New Year’s Eve, 2015 / 64
Present Moment / 65
End of Days / 67
Fig Tree / 68
Love / 75
Fate / 76
Wound / 78
My Work / 79
Indeterminacy / 80
Thirty-Seventh Year / 81
Self-Portrait as Homo sapiens  / 83
Conversation in Long Future Time / 84
Talking with God / 86
Worthiness / 87
 
Acknowledgments / 93
About the Author / 95