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The night my mother met Bruce Lee
observations on not fitting in
By Rekdal, Paisley
- ISBN
- 978-0-37540-937-0
- Publisher
- New York : Pantheon Books, c2000.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on October 1, 2000
Born and reared in Seattle, Rekdal (poetry, Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie) is a hyphenated third-generation American of half Chinese, half Norwegian descent. In these essays, she ruminates on family history and ethnic identity. For instance, she relates that when she attempted to patch together her family's assimilation story as a child, her grandparents, mother, and aunt deliberately misinterpr...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
