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Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong

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noellelovesbooks's review against another edition

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4.0

This book gave me so much to think about. How little I know of history and the challenges that my ancestors have faced and continue to face. 

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3.5

I liked Minor Feelings but I didn’t love it. Some essays really struck me, especially Hong’s discussions of racism, pop culture—loved her dismantling of Moonrise Kingdom—being Asian America and Korean, and how she confronts race head on, but others I struggled with—notably the essay about art school and her two college friends had some excellent parts but overall didn’t work for me.

Her writing is bold, judgmental and brutally honest. I admired her consistent interrogation of her own thoughts and motives as she ruthlessly questioned those of others. I definitely think it’s worth a read but it’s not a new favorite.

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4.5


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3.75

This book wasn't what I was expecting, but in a good way.  This book was a collection of essays and felt like a memoir. She talks about Asian Americans in history that I had never hear of until now and I am so glad that I could learn more about them.  As an Asian American myself, this book made me do a lot of self-reflecting.

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4.75


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5.0

Exceptional. This collection of essays is unbearably precise, striking the most vulnerable of emotions with masterful, incisive language. I feel my own untangled, dark and shameful vulnerabilities cast under a bright white spotlight to be dissected with great precision, confidence, and relevance. What does it mean to be Asian in a neoliberal, colonised, modern world? Why am I enraged and yet why am I invisible? This is essential reading.

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4.5


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5.0


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While I think I might need to reread a few times to fully get all of the layers that make up this book, I found this essay collection searing and powerful. Cathy Park Hong is unapologetic, which in itself is a radical act. She's definitely a voice to be listening to right now.

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5.0


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