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Hapa Girl

A Memoir

May-lee Chai author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Temple University Press,U.S.

Published:19th Sep '08

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In the mid-1960s, Winberg Chai, a young academic and the son of Chinese immigrants, married an Irish-American artist. This book offers a depiction of the racism suffered by them in rural South Dakota.A vivid depiction of the racism suffered by a mixed-race family in rural South Dakota

"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

ISBN: 9781592136162

Dimensions: 210mm x 140mm x 15mm

Weight: unknown

232 pages