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Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant : A Memoir by Curtis Chin (2023, Hardcover)

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PublisherLittle Brown & Company
ISBN-100316507652
ISBN-139780316507653
eBay Product ID (ePID)4059008923

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Book TitleEverything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant : a Memoir
Number of Pages304 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPersonal Memoirs, Lgbt
Publication Year2023
GenreBiography & Autobiography
AuthorCurtis Chin
FormatHardcover

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Item Length9.6 in
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LCCN2022-950494
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"The work Curtis Chin has done as a writer and organizer made so much of this current moment possible--a memoir from him is a cause for celebration."-- Alexander Chee, bestselling author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, "A charming, often funny account of a sentimental education in a Cantonese restaurant...Chin is a born storyteller with an easy manner, and this memoir should earn him many readers." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred), "Many are the pleasures of Curtis Chin's portrait of his family -- caught in between Ronald Reagan and Coleman Young, valedictory achievement and racist violence, shopping-mall suburbia in denial and Robocop metropolis in bad decline -- and himself as a flawed, funny, deceptively low-key young man stumbling through doubt, shame, and pride towards himself. Everything I Learned, I Learned In A Chinese Restaurant is an indelible page-turner." -- Jeff Chang, author of Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and The Making of Asian America and Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, "Curtis Chin's movable feast of a memoir dishes out everything you might want in a literary meal--savory reflections of our recent history, the sour-sweet tang of adolescent nostalgia, a little sauce, a lot of heart--and yes, plenty of hot tea. The real magic is in how a book that's so fulfilling still leaves you hungry for more." -- Jeff Yang, New York Times bestselling author of The Golden Screen and Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the 90s to Now
Dewey Decimal306.7662092
SynopsisThis "vivid, moving, funny, and heartfelt" memoir tells the story of Curtis Chin's time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980's Detroit (Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers ). Nineteen eighties Detroit was a volatile place to live, but above the fray stood a safe haven: Chung's Cantonese Cuisine, where anyone--from the city's first Black mayor to the local drag queens, from a big-time Hollywood star to elderly Jewish couples--could sit down for a warm, home-cooked meal. Here was where, beneath a bright-red awning and surrounded by his multigenerational family, filmmaker and activist Curtis Chin came of age; where he learned to embrace his identity as a gay ABC, or American-born Chinese; where he navigated the divided city's spiraling misfortunes; and where--between helpings of almond boneless chicken, sweet-and-sour pork, and some of his own, less-savory culinary concoctions--he realized just how much he had to offer to the world, to his beloved family, and to himself. Served up by the cofounder of the Asian American Writers' Workshop and structured around the very menu that graced the tables of Chung's, Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant is both a memoir and an invitation: to step inside one boy's childhood oasis, scoot into a vinyl booth, and grow up with him--and perhaps even share something off the secret menu. An American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book--Israel Fishman Nonfiction Award A 2024 Michigan Notable Book Best Nonfiction Books of the Year-- Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year--Apple Books TIME 's Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2023 * San Francisco Chronicle 's Highly Anticipated Books to Put on Your Radar This Fall 2023 * Washington Post 's Books to Read This Fall 2023 * Eater 's Best Food Books to Read 2023 * Lambda Literary Review 's October's Most Anticipated LGBTQIA+ Literature, This "vivid, moving, funny, and heartfelt" memoir tells the story of Curtis Chin's time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980's Detroit (Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers ). Nineteen eighties Detroit was a volatile place to live, but above the fray stood a safe haven: Chung's Cantonese Cuisine, where anyone--from the city's first Black mayor to the local drag queens, from a big-time Hollywood star to elderly Jewish couples--could sit down for a warm, home-cooked meal. Here was where, beneath a bright-red awning and surrounded by his multigenerational family, filmmaker and activist Curtis Chin came of age; where he learned to embrace his identity as a gay ABC, or American-born Chinese; where he navigated the divided city's spiraling misfortunes; and where--between helpings of almond boneless chicken, sweet-and-sour pork, and some of his own, less-savory culinary concoctions--he realized just how much he had to offer to the world, to his beloved family, and to himself. Served up by the cofounder of the Asian American Writers' Workshop and structured around the very menu that graced the tables of Chung's, Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant is both a memoir and an invitation: to step inside one boy's childhood oasis, scoot into a vinyl booth, and grow up with him--and perhaps even share something off the secret menu. An American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book--Israel Fishman Nonfiction Award A 2024 Michigan Notable Book Best Nonfiction Books of the Year-- Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year--Apple Books TIME 's Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2023 - San Francisco Chronicle 's Highly Anticipated Books to Put on Your Radar This Fall 2023 - Washington Post 's Books to Read This Fall 2023 - Eater 's Best Food Books to Read 2023 - Lambda Literary Review 's October's Most Anticipated LGBTQIA+ Literature
LC Classification NumberHQ75.8.C456A3 2023

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