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Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong

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noragjc's review against another edition

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challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

5.0

this book was so good I screamed I cried I threw up I fell to my knees in the walmart
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lilybear3's review against another edition

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challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

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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challenging dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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koreanlinda's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

3.0

My short reflection as a Korean American reader

Forte:
  • I liked the chapters about Cathy's experience with counseling therapy and the relationship with her mother. 

Shortcomings:
  • The chapters lack cohesion and were confusing in terms of time progression. 
  • The book is marketed as an Asian American memoir, but a big portion of the book is neither memoir nor about the Asian American experience. 
  • I got the feeling that Cathy is avoiding telling her own story and reverting to the story of others.
  • One chapter about Cathy's college years shows that a friend abused Cathy, but there is never an acknowledgement of the abuse. It is rather dismissed as a character flaw. 

If you want to read about Korean American Woman's experience, I recommend Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner. 

Review by Linda (she/they)
Twitter @KoreanLinda
Letter writer at DefinitelyNotOkay.com 
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voices_and_viewpoints's review against another edition

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challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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annabella's review against another edition

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medium-paced

4.25

So many things I felt I related to but never found the words to express myself. 
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ntvenessa's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

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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alicelalicon's review against another edition

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informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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sarosen's review against another edition

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challenging reflective medium-paced
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bookiecharm's review against another edition

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Hit or miss essays. The first essay is the best. 
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