Minor Feelings
A Reckoning on Race and the Asian Condition
$21.20
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
18 May 2021
Summary
Chosen as a Guardian BOOK OF 2020, picked by AnOther as a Book You Should Read This Year, BBC Best Books of 2020 so far
‘Brilliant, penetrating and unforgettable, Minor Feelings is what was missing on our shelf of classics…To read this book is to become more human’ - Claudia Rankine author of Citizen
‘Hong says the book was ‘a dare to herself’, and she makes good on it: by writing into the heart of her own discomfort, she emerges with a reckoning de…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781788165594 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1788165594 |
| Author: | Cathy Park Hong |
| Publisher: | Profile Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Profile Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 18 May 2021 |
| Weight: | 185g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 128mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
‘Unputdownable…Hong’s razor-sharp, provocative prose will linger long after you put Minor Feelings down’ - AnOther
‘a fearless work of creative non-fiction about racism in cultural pursuits by an award-winning poet and essayist’ - Asia House
Cathy Park Hong
Cathy Park Hong is the author of three books of poetry. She is a recipient of numerous prestigious fellowships, including the Windham-Campbell Prize, the Guggenheim Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Her essays have been praised as ‘groundbreaking’ and the ‘cornerstone of contemporary criticism.’ They have been cited by Claudia Rankine, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Ben Lerner.
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