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In Search of My Asian Self
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
June 2014
On Sale: June 10, 2014
272 pages
ISBN: 0547450486
EAN: 9780547450483
Kindle: B00E78IFUI
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Non-Fiction Memoir
An award-winning writer takes a groundbreaking look at the
experience and psyche of the Asian American male. Alex Tizon landed in an America that saw Asian women as
sexy and Asian men as sexless. Immigrating from the
Philippines as a young boy, everything he saw and heard
taught him to be ashamed of his face, his skin color, his
height. His fierce and funny observations of sex and the Asian
American male include his own quest for love during college
in the 1980s, a tortured tutorial on stereotypes that still
make it hard for Asian men to get the girl. Tizon writes: "I
had to educate myself on my own worth. It was a sloppy,
piecemeal education, but I had to do it because no one else
was going to do it for me." And then, a transformation. First, Tizon’s growing
understanding that shame is universal: that his own just
happened to be about race. Next, seismic cultural changes –
from Jerry Yang’s phenomenal success with Yahoo! Inc., to
actor Ken Watanabe’s emergence in Hollywood blockbusters, to
Jeremy Lin’s meteoric NBA rise. Finally, Tizon’s deeply original, taboo-bending
investigation turns outward, tracking the unheard stories of
young Asian men today, in a landscape still complex but much
changed for the Asian American man.
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