You Cannot Resist me When my Hair is in Braids
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Machine generated contents note: Dreams of the Diaspora -- Public Persona -- Tsundere Pride or You Are So Prickly! -- Texting Nostalgic for Kathmandu -- The Californian -- "Did you eat? means I Love You" -- Finding Home Between the Vincent Chin Case and COVID-19 -- Adventures with the Haircut Aunties -- The World's Most Exciting Date -- Poignant Truth, Precarious You (and Preparing for the Sriracha Apocalypse) -- Learning to Drive Defensively -- Crying on Airplanes -- What Ever Happened to 3 (Wang Da Zhong)? -- He Ain't You -- A Suggestion of Salt (with Ravi Shankar) -- Falling, Mad and Alone -- You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair Is in Braids -- Tiny Modern Love Songs -- DTW -- "It's Not a Yellow Dildo!" -- Talkin to Whypipo -- 3 a.m. with Erhu -- Down in the Basement of the DIA -- The space between goodbye -- Secret Crush -- Sowing Aunties -- Breath Rises.
"In the aftermath of a messy divorce, Frances Kai-Hwa Wang writes in the hope of beginning to build a new life with four children, bossy aunties, unreliable suitors, and an uncertain political landscape. The lyric essays in You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair Is in Braids deftly navigate the space between cultures and reflect on lessons learned from both Asian American elders and young multiracial children, punctuated by moments rich with cultural and linguistic nuance... Within these lyric essays, some of which are accompanied by artwork and art installations, Wang finds the courage and hope to speak out for herself and for an entire generation of Asian American women." -- Amazon.com
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Meh submitted by 21621031390949 on June 10, 2022, 9:03pm Really didn’t much like this book, which is written in a kind of prose poetry. Didn’t care for the writing style and the story wasn’t engaging for me.

SERIES
Made in Michigan writers series
PUBLISHED
Detroit, Michigan : Wayne State University Press, [2022]
Year Published: 2022
Description: xii, 100 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780814349410
0814349412
SUBJECTS
Divorce -- Poetry.
American poetry -- Asian American authors.
Asian diaspora -- Poetry.
Poetry.
Essays.