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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, Tizonβs growing understanding that shame is universal: that his own just happened to be about race. Next, seismic cultural changes β from Jerry Yangβs phenomenal success with Yahoo! Inc., to actor Ken Watanabeβs emergence in Hollywood blockbusters, to Jeremy Linβs meteoric NBA rise. Finally, Tizonβs 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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