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Sidesplitter
- How to Be from Two Worlds at Once
- Narrated by: Phil Wang
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
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Publisher's summary
One of the UK's brightest and best comedians takes an incisive look at race and belonging.
But where are you really from?
Phil Wang has been asked this question so many times he's lost count. So, finally, he decided to write a book about it. About how to be from two places at once.
Phil was born in the UK, in Stoke-on-Trent to an English mother and a Chinese-Malaysian father. Three weeks after his birth, the Wang family returned to his father's hometown in Malaysia, and at age 16, Phil was uprooted once again, to return with his family to the UK.
In Sidesplitter, Phil reflects on race, belonging and cultural cachet, bringing his trademark cynicism and wit to topics that range from food and comedy to empire and colonialism.
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