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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • ONE OF TIME’S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE • A ruthlessly honest, emotionally charged, and utterly original exploration of Asian American consciousness. Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning PDF

“Brilliant . . . To read this book is to become more human.”—Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen

In development as a television series starring and adapted by Greta Lee • One of Time’s 10 Best Nonfiction Books of the Year • Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, New Statesman, BuzzFeed, Esquire, The New York Public Library, and Book Riot

Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose fresh truths about racialized 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.

Binding 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.

With sly humor 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, Minor Feelings forms a portrait of one Asian American psyche—and of a writer’s search to both uncover and speak the truth.

Praise for Minor Feelings

“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. . . . Minor Feelings is studded with moments [of] candor and dark humor shot through with glittering self-awareness.”—The New York Times

“Hong uses her own experiences as a jumping off point to examine race and emotion in the United States.”—Newsweek

“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.”—Salon

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The Writers

Cathy Park Hong is the author of three poetry collections including Dance Dance Revolution, chosen by Adrienne Rich for the Barnard Women Poets Prize, and Engine Empire. Hong is a recipient of the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Her poems have been published in Poetry, The New York Times, The Paris Review, McSweeney’s, Boston Review, and other journals. She is the poetry editor of The New Republic and full professor at the Rutgers University–Newark MFA program in poetry. In 2021, she was named one of Time’s 100 most influential people in the world

Proportions of Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning PDF

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Random House Publishing Group; Reprint edition (March 2, 2021)
  Language ‏ : ‎ English
  Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
  International Standard Book Number-10 ‏ : ‎ 1984820389
  International Standard Book Number-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1984820389
  Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.4 ounces
  Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.13 x 0.56 x 7.9 inches
  Best Sellers Rank: #9,580 in Books

Reviews From Customers

Wendy SAXON PhD
only read this if you are not carrying enough white guilt to suit the author
April 24, 2021

Ms. Hong writes:
“….In my search for an honest way to write about race I wanted to comfort the afflicted but more than that I wanted to afflict the comfortable; I wanted to make them squirm in shame….”

Well, I wanted to better understand my Asian heritage clients, but the author has convinced me my whiteness is a barrier with no remedies.
Not really. I would not disrespect my fellow humans by believing this is a gap that cannot be bridged.
I am sorry she got in my head. Hopefully I can wash her nastiness out for the sake of my awesome Asian sisters and brothers.
My people were in poor houses in Victorian England, miners with no work. I do not wish to afflict anyone who is more comfortable than we have been.
5

Gregory Barbee
Loved it.
March 12, 2020

Minor Feelings is among my favorite reads this year. Cathy Park Hong’s incredible poetry (if you haven’t read any of her three collections, you should) were just a precursor to her sharp insights, raw humanity and forceful wisdom displayed in her essays. Her book is one of those rare reads that, immediately upon finishing it, you want to read again; further, the works she references, whether Richard Pryor’s comedy, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s writing and films, or Myung Mi Kim’s poetry, provoked me to search out those gems and add them to my TBR/TBW list. Cathy writes with such grace and expression that it made me proud that she grew up in Los Angeles. In short, Minor Feelings challenges its readers in all the right ways.
7

Customer Bob
Distressing, but eye-opening, necessary, and powerful.
May 10, 2020

This isn’t a fun read. But it gives a brutally accurate and sobering picture of race relations among Asian-Americans. Should be required reading for anyone who thinks Asian-Americans are the “model minority.” The reality is much more complex than that.
6

Carinne H.
Chaotic good reading just in time for 2020.
March 22, 2020

I don’t think this was meant to be written with structure or form.
The essays are very stream of consciousness, but also remain informative.
If 2019 was the year where everyone should have read Between the World and Me by Tah-Nehisi Coates, 2020 is the year everyone should read Minor Feelings by Cathy Hong Park.
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Roderick De Jesus
Amazing!
May 11, 2020

There have been books that resonated with me on all the different levels of being an Asian American. But nothing has ever resonated with the same anger I have had. The only thing I hated about this book was how fast I read it. Her essays were both different and the same as mine and it made me feel less alone in this world, to see that unfortunately my feelings are not the outlier but oftentimes the norm.
4

Marie
Rambling
March 2, 2020

Experience and response are important and need to be written/published. But this memoir is chaotic and rambling and needs focused development.
5

Nance
An essential read
May 29, 2020

Cathy Park Hong unpacks, confronts, and dismantles the “model minority” myth and fearlessly explores the complexities of being Asian in America while examining and updating race, capitalism and identity to the 21st century. Each essay is so layered and beautifully written, delving into the variegated truths and contradictions of Asian American identity and weaving personal memories and reflections with historical and current events and cultural and social criticism.

Minor Feelings is many things, it’s hard to put into words, or words that can adequately convey how powerful and brilliant it is. Reading Minor Feelings was so deeply gratifying, satisfying, inspiring, empowering, and illuminating. I felt exposed and profoundly recognized as each essay, each page, each passage peeled away a layer to distant internalized feelings, “ugly feelings” that I had have never reckoned with or known how to even acknowledge. Minor Feelings articulates these emotions and experiences into sharp focus, where I felt overwhelmed as I wasn’t prepared to feel so seen, where my invisible self became visible. Hong’s essays have equipped me with something that I’ve been searching for, a voice. Mira Jacob writes, “[Minor Feelings] takes all the parts of us that we can barely account for and gives them back fully recognized. It felt like having someone sit me down in a chair and say ‘You’re feelings are real’ and ‘This is how we got here’ and Here is a way out’ all at once…” Minor Feelings is an essential read, now more than ever.
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Corey
3.5/4
February 7, 2021

I wanted to give this a 4 but I didn’t like the writing style towards the end. I loved what I learned about Asian history and culture and the way that the author captured feelings of indebtedness, invisibility, and racial identity against American mainstream “model minority” narratives. I enjoyed her introspection and the characters she introduced but most importantly I enjoyed her honesty and rawness. In spite of all that I couldn’t help but feel that she might be deflecting, holding something back, not sharing which is exactly the argument she makes of how Asians are taught to behave: quietly and privately. It was good, I just didn’t love the quasi poetry/ quasi essay format as much towards the end. Admittedly, Its a very unique writing style that I am probably under appreciating.

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RL
Powerful and provocative
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 22, 2020

Once I started reading the first essay I couldn’t put this book down. Its honesty, vulnerability and outrage have helped me to put my own feelings of ‘otherness’ and experiences of racism into a wider context. This is also very useful as a reference to further reading of texts by other writers, which I intend to explore.

Author/Editor
This is one of the best books of 2020!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 19, 2020

This book could not be more raw, accessible and pertinent in this day and age. As a queer, disabled, person of colour, I felt that I could relate to every story; every narrative turn. I devoured the book in one sitting before coming back to it time and again over the last few months. I purchased 20 copies as Xmas presents this year. And I have never purchased Xmas presents before. Strongly recommend!

Suzette
A powerful meditation on what it means to be Asian in the white western world
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 17, 2021

Minor Feelings is remarkable and does exactly what it says on the tin. Hong describes the small, hard-to-reach nooks of how it really feels to be an Asian person living in the white western world, and exposes them with laser-fine and startling accuracy. She blends a mixture of anecdote, history and autobiography with wonderful mastery. As an Asian person, you’ll feel vindicated for every time you *felt* that something that happened to you was about race, as a non-Asian person you’ll have your eyes opened to the subtlety of Asian-racism; its systemic-ness, its invisibility and the notion of it being acceptable (hey, the nail bar lady wants your money after all, if she gets your polish wrong you’ve the right to be rude, right? right?). Everybody should read it and I’ll be telling everyone about it.

Intriguing and Enlightening
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 28, 2021

The lot of Asian Americans is oft ignored. Against the backdrop of recent terrible assaults on Asian Americans, this book unrolls a narrative both lyrical and shocking. A must read for anyone who cares enough to understand.

D. W. Kessler
Moving, challenging, inspiring
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 19, 2021

I’d been pretty ignorant about the Asian experience in America, so this was an eye-opening experience. It’s also an incredibly funny, smart, moving and soulful one. Loved it, from start to finish (with very few breaks in-between).

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