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Teague Gray teaguegray — I just *had* to read this book while working on a APA Heritage Month project celebrating Asian American unity, didn't I? Eric Liu, a speechwriter for the Clinton administration, writer for Slate magazine, and professor at University of Washington, writes candidly about growing up as the son of solidly middle-class Chinese American parents from Taiwan. Though billed an overachiever (Liu questions who sets those standards, anyway), he repeatedly pushes the envelope by doing "non-Asian" things: joining the wrestling team, majoring in politics, working in DC. These experiences are cast against his hesitation to identify as Asian American, a group that others easily lay claim to him with. Liu problematizes the Asian American identity, pointing out that it is a group artificially created for political organizing and that Asian Americans come from incredibly disparate cultures and socioeconomic experiences. What is there to unify us? When does someone "become" Asian American? I found his questions very thought-provoking, particularly as a multigenerational (that's a term of mine) Chinese American. In college, I often prefered to be identified more broadly as Asian American than Chinese American, as to distance myself from being Chinese, really... I was part of the Asian American student groups, but didn't want anything to do with the more ethnic Chinese Student Association. I didn't want to have to continually explain away the shame of not speaking Cantonese/Mandarin. I find now that being identified as Asian American is useful insofar as it doesn't stop you from building coalitions more broadly with other ethnic groups -- ie, why should I identify more closely with people of Samoan descent than Irish descent? Great, quick read.

Jeff St staubin — Though less mesmerizing than her international bestseller, Sarah's Key, de Rosnay still manages to captivate readers with this poignant slice-of-life novel. Though, the secret is rather thin and obvious, the fractured orbit of a once-happy family man searching for answers.