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Publisher
Temple University Press
ISBN-10
1592136168
ISBN-13
9781592136162
eBay Product ID (ePID)
65632469
Product Key Features
Book Title
Hapa Girl : a Memoir
Number of Pages
232 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Topic
Cultural Heritage, Discrimination & Race Relations, Sociology / General, Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies, General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
14.2 Oz
Item Length
8.3 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Hapa Girl, [is a] searing memoir of growing up half-Chinese in the American heartland... The writing is vigorous, and Chai's descriptions of the murderous winters and corrosive boredom of the Great Plains are compelling." Time (Asia) "Easily labeled a coming-of-age story or a narrative about racial tensions in 1960s America, this memoir-whose title employs the Hawaiian word for mixed-is truly an homage to a loving marriage. Only the strongest kind of love could survive the crucible of a community hoping for a family's failure. Highly recommended." Library Journal "May-Lee Chai's memoirHapa Girlexamines living on the mainland, conservative South Dakota in particular, and the racial tensions that accompany it...Chai is best when painting hurtful moments from her life relating to the issue at hand....[It] could [be] a valuable resource for those seeking self-discovery on being of mixed race." Honolulu Weekly, "A tour-de-force sojourn into a never-before-told zone of small town American bigotry. Hapa Girl is consistently stylish, permanently courageous, bitingly tragic, but always rationally detached with a Marx Brothers' wit. This is May-lee Chai's best comment yet about America." -Anthony B. Chan , author of Perpetually Cool: The Many Lives of Anna May Wong, "Hapa Girl, [is a] searing memoir of growing up half-Chinese in the American heartland... The writing is vigorous, and Chai's descriptions of the murderous winters and corrosive boredom of the Great Plains are compelling." Time (Asia)"Easily labeled a coming-of-age story or a narrative about racial tensions in 1960s America, this memoir-whose title employs the Hawaiian word for mixed-is truly an homage to a loving marriage. Only the strongest kind of love could survive the crucible of a community hoping for a family's failure. Highly recommended." Library Journal"May-Lee Chai's memoirHapa Girlexamines living on the mainland, conservative South Dakota in particular, and the racial tensions that accompany it...Chai is best when painting hurtful moments from her life relating to the issue at hand....[It] could [be] a valuable resource for those seeking self-discovery on being of mixed race." Honolulu Weekly, "A tour-de-force sojourn into a never-before-told zone of small town American bigotry.Hapa Girlis consistently stylish, permanently courageous, bitingly tragic, but always rationally detached with a Marx Brothers' wit. This is May-lee Chai's best comment yet about America."-Anthony B. Chan, author of Perpetually Cool: The Many Lives of Anna May Wong, "A tour-de-force sojourn into a never-before-told zone of small town American bigotry. Hapa Girl is consistently stylish, permanently courageous, bitingly tragic, but always rationally detached with a Marx Brothers' wit. This is May-lee Chai's best comment yet about America." --Anthony B. Chan , author of Perpetually Cool: The Many Lives of Anna May Wong
Dewey Decimal
978.3/004951
Table Of Content
Prologue Chapter 1: The Wearing of the Green Chapter 2: The Sexy Artist Meets the Boy From New York City Chapter 3: How to Charm a Mother-in-Law Chapter 4: California Dreamin' Chapter 5: The Banana Chapter 6: The Banana's Revenge Chapter 7: Autumn in the Country Chapter 8: Hunting Season Chapter 9: The Little Things Chapter 10: The Closet Chapter 11: My Last Confession Chapter 12: Bugs Chapter 13: The Fall of the Prince Chapter 14: The Jade Tree Chapter 15: The Nights of Many Prayers Chapter 16: What You Don't Know Can Hurt You Chapter 17: Stephen King High Chapter 18: Barbarians Chapter 19: Glamour Puss Chapter 20: The Cannibals Chapter 21: The Fine Art of Denial
Synopsis
In the mid-1960s, Winberg Chai, a young academic and the son of Chinese immigrants, married an Irish-American artist. In Hapa Girl (hapa is Hawaiian for mixed) their daughter tells the story of this loving family as they moved from Southern California to New York to a South Dakota farm by the 1980s. In their new Midwestern home, the family finds itself the object of unwelcome attention, which swiftly escalates to violence. The Chais are suddenly socially isolated and barely able to cope with the tension that arises from daily incidents of racial animosity, including random acts of cruelty. May-lee Chai's memoir ends in China, where she arrives just in time to witness a riot and demonstrations. Here she realizes that the rural Americans' fears of change, of economic uncertainty, of racial anxiety, of the unknowable future compared to the known past were the same as China's. And I realized finally that it had not been my fault.
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