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2024 PNBA Award Winner

"[Wong] paints her story with flourish."―The New York Times

"A love letter to Atlantic City and the Asian American working class."― The Los Angeles Times

"Blazing, lyrical."―The Boston Globe

"Joyful. . . . Wong’s memoir invites those who have been overlooked in America to hold up…

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Weekend treks to Chinatown, to satisfy cravings for dim sum, roast duck, et al, are a ritual for those of us of non-Chinese descent  with adventurous palates. But how many of us have considered the lives of the people who cook and serve us the food that we make the trek for? Jane Wong, a poet and creative writing professor, grew up as a "restaurant baby" in Jersey Shore's Chinatown in the U.S. A first generation American, a beneficiary of her immigrant family's struggle to assimilate and survive in America, her memoir is wise, tender, vulnerable, and poignant. The social…

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