Name: The Loneliest Americans - Jay Caspian Kang
Brand: Jay Caspian Kang
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nA provocative and sweeping (Time) blend of family history and original reportage that explores--and reimagines--Asian American identity in a Black and white world n[Kang's] exploration of class and identity among Asian Americans will be talked about for years to come.--Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times Book Review n nONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, NPR, Mother Jones n nIn 1965, a new immigration law lifted a century of restrictions against Asian immigrants to the United States. Nobody, including the lawmakers who passed the bill, expected it to transform the country's demographics. But over the next four decades, millions arrived, including Jay Caspian Kang's parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles. They came with almost no understanding of their new home, much less the history of Asian America that was supposed to define them. n nThe Loneliest Americans is the unforgettable story of Kang and his family as they move from a housing project in Cambridge to an idyllic college town in the South and eventually to the West Coast. Their story unfolds against the backdrop of a rapidly expanding Asian America, as millions more immigrants, many of them working-class or undocumented, stream into the country. At the same time, upwardly mobile urban professionals have struggled to reconcile their parents' assimilationist goals with membership in a multicultural elite--all while trying to carve out a new kind of belonging for their own children, who are neither white nor truly