{"title":"Cathy Park Hong","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCathy Park Hong\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a profound exploration of identity, race, and personal experience through her compelling essays and memoirs. Her writing blends sharp cultural critique with lyrical insight, inviting readers to engage deeply with the complexities of contemporary life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn works such as \u003cem\u003eMinor Feelings\u003c\/em\u003e, Hong navigates themes of emotional truth and societal expectation, illuminating the nuanced realities of marginalized voices. Her books invite reflection on both individual and collective narratives in modern society.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"minor-feelings","title":"Minor Feelings","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eMinor Feelings\u003c\/i\u003e by Cathy Park Hong is a poignant and thought-provoking exploration of the Asian American experience. Through a blend of memoir, cultural criticism, and poetry, Hong dives deep into the intricate emotions and internal conflicts that many Asian Americans face. She recounts her own personal anecdotes while examining societal structures and cultural practices that contribute to a collective sense of racial discomfort and identity confusion. The book is a heartfelt narrative that tackles themes of marginalisation, belonging, and the complex interplays of identity within a racialised society.\n\nChosen as a \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e BOOK OF 2020, picked by \u003ci\u003eAnOther\u003c\/i\u003e as a Book You Should Read This Year, and included in BBC’s Best Books of 2020 so far, \u003ci\u003eMinor Feelings\u003c\/i\u003e has been widely acclaimed for its intelligent and incisive prose. Claudia Rankine, author of \u003ci\u003eCitizen\u003c\/i\u003e, describes it as \"brilliant, penetrating, and unforgettable... To read this book is to become more human.\"\n\nHong's writing is described as transformative and daring. She embarks on a personal journey into the heart of her own discomfort, addressing the internalised struggles and \"minor feelings\" related to the dissonance between her lived reality and the American dream. As Maggie Nelson, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Argonauts\u003c\/i\u003e, notes, Hong \"makes good on it: by writing into the heart of her own discomfort, she emerges with a reckoning destined to be a classic.\"\n\nWhat happens when immigrants believe the lies they’re told about their own racial identity? For Cathy Park Hong, this experience manifests as a blend of shame and difficulty, encapsulated in what she calls \"minor feelings.\" These feelings are often a result of the paradoxical nature of being seen yet unseen, recognised yet misunderstood, a prominent part of the society yet constantly regarded as the other.\n\n\u003ci\u003eMinor Feelings\u003c\/i\u003e is a crucial work that illuminates the nuances of racial identity and the seldom-discussed emotional landscape of Asian Americans. It is not only a compelling personal account but also a profound critique of the societal norms that shape our understanding of ethnicity and belonging. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the intricate dynamics of race, identity, and the authentic human experience.\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45706625679596,"sku":"9781788165594","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781788165594.jpg?v=1725889874"},{"product_id":"minor-feelings-by-cathy-park-hong-9781984820389","title":"Minor Feelings","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER\u003c\/b\u003e • \u003cb\u003eONE OF \u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e'S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE\u003c\/b\u003e • A ruthlessly honest, emotionally charged, and utterly original exploration of Asian American consciousness.\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Brilliant . . . To read this book is to become more human.”—Claudia Rankine, author of \u003ci\u003eCitizen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003eIn development as a television series starring and adapted by Greta Lee •\u003c\/b\u003e One of \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e's 10 Best Nonfiction Books of the Year • Named One of the Best Books of the Year by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, The Washington Post,\u003c\/i\u003e NPR, \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman, BuzzFeed, Esquire,\u003c\/i\u003e The New York Public Library, and \u003ci\u003eBook Riot\u003c\/i\u003e.\n\n\u003cp\u003ePoet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose fresh truths about racialised consciousness in America. Part memoir and part cultural criticism, this collection is vulnerable, humorous, and provocative—and its relentless and riveting pursuit of vital questions around family and friendship, art and politics, identity and individuality, will change the way you think about our world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBinding these essays together is Hong’s theory of “minor feelings.” As the daughter of Korean immigrants, Cathy Park Hong grew up steeped in shame, suspicion, and melancholy. She would later understand that these “minor feelings” occur when American optimism contradicts your own reality—when you believe the lies you’re told about your own racial identity. Minor feelings are not small, they’re dissonant—and in their tension Hong finds the key to the questions that haunt her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith sly humour and a poet’s searching mind, Hong uses her own story as a portal into a deeper examination of racial consciousness in America today. This intimate and devastating book traces her relationship to the English language, to shame and depression, to poetry and female friendship. A radically honest work of art, \u003ci\u003eMinor Feelings\u003c\/i\u003e forms a portrait of one Asian American psyche—and of a writer’s search to both uncover and speak the truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eMinor Feelings\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Hong begins her new book of essays with a bang. . . . The essays wander a variegated terrain of memoir, criticism and polemic, oscillating between smooth proclamations of certainty and twitches of self-doubt. . . . \u003ci\u003eMinor Feelings\u003c\/i\u003e is studded with moments [of] candour and dark humour shot through with glittering self-awareness.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Hong uses her own experiences as a jumping off point to examine race and emotion in the United States.”—\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Powerful . . . [Hong] brings together memoiristic personal essay and reflection, historical accounts and modern reporting, and other works of art and writing, in order to amplify a multitude of voices and capture Asian America as a collection of contradictions. She does so with sharp wit and radical transparency.”—\u003ci\u003eSalon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47643061846252,"sku":"9781984820389","price":54.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/a8190aa26874a59a214c46f00c716ba9.jpg?v=1779170140"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/cathy-park-hong.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}