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Ava Chin
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NYC, The United States
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Celeste Ng, Roxane Gay, Maxine Hong Kingston, Margot Jefferson, Patti
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Chinese Cleavers (and Celeriac-Potato Au Gratin)
This is my grandfather. I didn’t know him at this age, and yet, in a way I did.
A bartender and manager at restaurants across NYC and Long Island, he was charming, playful, and rarely serious. He was constantly cracking corny jokes that would have my cousins and me in stitches, and some of my earliest memories are from when I was a baby hoisted onto his shoulders, able to touch the ceil
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Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming
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2023
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Eating Wildly: Foraging for Life, Love and the Perfect Meal
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2014
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Split : Stories from a Generation Raised on Divorce
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2002
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“May we all experience that kind of acceptance and love.”
― Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming
― Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming
“He had grown used to the eyes upon him as he and his uncle traveled from their bedroom community in Brooklyn to Chinatown. When one woman dropped her purse at his feet and Shim handed it back to her with “Your handbag, m’lady,” and a flourish, she’d nearly jumped out of her seat in surprise. He mentioned none of this to Chun, because after nearly a month in Hong Kong in her steady presence, the sharp edges of being treated with suspicion were blunted by a film of nostalgia. New York was home; this trip had made him realize that.”
― Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming
― Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming
“Thich Nhat Hanh once said about family members through the generations—they are the same, yet different.”
― Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming
― Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming
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“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
“My library is an archive of longings.”
― As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
― As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
