- Asian Americans, Politics and government, Race identity, Chinese Americans
What is race for? That bracing question animates every page of The Accidental Asian, a powerful work from one of the nation's leading young voices. In these personal and poignant reflections on assimilation, Eric Liu articulates a vision of American identity that will provoke and inspire.
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Contemporary, character-led, spare and earnest.
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- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Eric Liu
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 214
- Publisher
- Vintage, Random House, Tian xia yuan jian chu ban gong si
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- Chinese, English
- ISBN
- 9780375704864
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