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Which side are you on : a novel, Ryan Lee Wong

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How can we live with integrity and pleasure in this world of police brutality and racism? An Asian American activist is challenged by his mother to face this question in this powerful--and funny--debut novel of generational change, a mother's secret, and an activist's coming-of-age. Twenty-one-year-old Reed is fed up. Angry about the killing of a Black man by an Asian American NYPD officer, he wants to drop out of college and devote himself to the Black Lives Matter movement. But would that truly bring him closer to the moral life he seeks? In a series of intimate, charged conversations, his mother--once the leader of a Korean-Black coalition--demands that he rethink his outrage, and along with it, what it means to be an organizer, a student, an ally, an American, and a son. As Reed zips around his hometown of Los Angeles with his mother, searching and questioning, he faces a revelation that will change everything. Inspired by his family's roots in activism, Ryan Lee Wong offers an extraordinary debut novel for readers of Anthony Veasna So, Rachel Kushner, and Michelle Zauner: a book that is as humorous as it is profound, a celebration of seeking a life that is both virtuous and fun, an ode to mothering and being mothered
Language
eng
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First Catapult edition.
Extent
1 online resource (175 pages)
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9781646221493
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Which side are you on : a novel
Title
Which side are you on
Title remainder
a novel
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Ryan Lee Wong
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Language
eng
Summary
How can we live with integrity and pleasure in this world of police brutality and racism? An Asian American activist is challenged by his mother to face this question in this powerful--and funny--debut novel of generational change, a mother's secret, and an activist's coming-of-age. Twenty-one-year-old Reed is fed up. Angry about the killing of a Black man by an Asian American NYPD officer, he wants to drop out of college and devote himself to the Black Lives Matter movement. But would that truly bring him closer to the moral life he seeks? In a series of intimate, charged conversations, his mother--once the leader of a Korean-Black coalition--demands that he rethink his outrage, and along with it, what it means to be an organizer, a student, an ally, an American, and a son. As Reed zips around his hometown of Los Angeles with his mother, searching and questioning, he faces a revelation that will change everything. Inspired by his family's roots in activism, Ryan Lee Wong offers an extraordinary debut novel for readers of Anthony Veasna So, Rachel Kushner, and Michelle Zauner: a book that is as humorous as it is profound, a celebration of seeking a life that is both virtuous and fun, an ode to mothering and being mothered
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Wong, Ryan Lee
Dewey number
813/.6
Index
no index present
LC call number
PS3623.O5983
LC item number
W55 2022eb
Literary form
fiction
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  • Asian Americans
  • Asian American men
  • Political activists
  • Mothers and sons
  • College students
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Which side are you on : a novel, Ryan Lee Wong
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Edition
First Catapult edition.
Extent
1 online resource (175 pages)
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online
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9781646221493
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computer
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  • (OCoLC)1344538729
  • (OCoLC)on1344538729
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Which side are you on : a novel, Ryan Lee Wong
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Publication
Note
Description based upon print version of record
Antecedent source
unknown
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
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  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Dimensions
unknown
Edition
First Catapult edition.
Extent
1 online resource (175 pages)
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9781646221493
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
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413be05e-1f39-45b9-a141-1b6e06ae8830
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not applicable
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unknown
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unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
  • (OCoLC)1344538729
  • (OCoLC)on1344538729

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