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ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, NPR, Mother Jones • “[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
“A smart, vulnerable, and incisive exploration of what it means for this brilliant and honest writer—a child of Korean immigrants—to assimilate and aspire while being critical of his membership in his community of origin, in his political tribe, and in America.”—Min Jin Lee, author of Pachinko
In 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.
The 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 “people of color.”
Kang recognizes this existential loneliness in himself and in other Asian Americans who try to locate themselves in the country’s racial binary. There are the businessmen turning Flushing into a center of immigrant wealth; the casualties of the Los Angeles riots; the impoverished parents in New York City who believe that admission to the city’s exam schools is the only way out; the men’s right’s activists on Reddit ranting about intermarriage; and the handful of protesters who show up at Black Lives Matter rallies holding “Yellow Peril Supports Black Power” signs. Kang’s exquisitely crafted book brings these lonely parallel climbers together amid a wave of anti-Asian violence. In response, he calls for a new form of immigrant solidarity—one rooted not in bubble tea and elite college admissions but in the struggles of refugees and the working class.
Critic reviews
“Much of the book’s texture is supplied by the character of Jay Kang, who bristles at the prospect of being a character at all. . . . His perpetual self-doubt makes the book crackle with life. . . . The lasting achievement of The Loneliest Americans is that it prompts Asian Americans to think about identity in a framework other than likeness. It asks us to make meaning in ways beyond looking out for our own.”—The New Yorker
“A smart, vulnerable, and incisive exploration of what it means for this brilliant and honest writer—a child of Korean immigrants—to assimilate and aspire while being critical of his membership in his community of origin, in his political tribe, and in America.”—Min Jin Lee, author of Pachinko
“From courtrooms to classrooms, Reddit threads to Kang’s own family history, The Loneliest Americans fearlessly, voraciously probes the foundations of the Asian American experience, not to disavow it but to conjure bracing new visions of community and solidarity.”—Hua Hsu, author of A Floating Chinaman
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- TexasisAwesome
- 01-24-22
interesting read, not my own personal story
I'm a first generation Asian American and shared many similarities with the author. While we shared many similar struggles, I did not approach my problems with the same discontent and ranting as the author. He came from a rich/high middle class background with well educated parents. I came from a poor working background with little to nothing. While like the author stated how we are viewed the same by white and black people, we are yet very different. I grew up in the deep south which had challenges that the author never faced. I didn't know English like the author. While racism was a problem for me, I didn't categorized the events as a white or black or Latino issue. I think it's a good read but like many products from other race raging colored author. It's their side of the world but it's not part of everyone's world. DHT
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- Ben
- 10-16-21
You should read this (even if you're not Asian)
Part memoir, part thoughtful examination of what "Asian American" means and whether anybody cares. This book delves into questions for which there aren't many clear-cut answers. You should read this, especially if you're not Asian.
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- J. Kang
- 10-16-21
An Honest Accounting of Asian-American Identity
If you would like to get a glimpse of the honest reflections and private thoughts that any Asian-American with two brain cells surely has had on occasion -- then get this book. If you are an Asian-American that finds yourself feeling the hollowness of all the fruits that society has promised or struggle to situate yourself in a complex pyramid of injustice -- then buy this book.
Jay Caspian Kang seems to be divisive; one can plot out the kind of professionalized, NGO-style activists, cliques of writers, and media personalities that will certainly rail against this book. Why? Because it doesn't follow the now familiar stenography of upwardly mobile Asians and their radicalism of primarily form. As such, Kang's writing suffers the digressions and conflicts of everyday life rather than the perfectly planned woke speeches we have all come to glaze over during marches, media interviews, and the like.
This isn't to say that in the space between memoir doesn't hold well-researched, thoughtful, and sympathetic portraits of Asian-American history as we know it -- ranging from the origin of the term, the International Hotel, the building of FLushing, K-town, and the like. Despite exploring a wide array of subjects and pushing the edges of conventional wisdom, Kang is nothing if not sympathetic.
JCK asks upwardly mobile Asians to essentially commit themselves to becoming class traitors within the context of the US--a nation which has never ceased in its brutally one-sided class war and which has never truly reckoned with the ceaseless racism towards Blacks. He asks for us to betray the masters of capital not for a sense of abstract morality but rather to embrace a broader immigrant community--much of which lives on the fringes of society and often in poverty.
This is where one of the more reasonable critiques of the book comes. When being asked to side with the poor most people come to expect the subjects of the book to be representative. JCK has stated this more-or-less fell out of the scope of this book, and it seems a reasonable. That being said, a lot of the individual portraits are of upwardly mobile Asians -- which includes JCK himself (a fact he will cop to easily and often).
While this book does not push the boundaries of academic scholarship, radical thought, or reveal a secret asian history to unlock a rapturous radical front -- it does make an intervention (perhaps even a plea) to the kinds of upwardly mobile Asians that have the income, time, and wherewithal to naval gaze on identity to perhaps consider a better use of their time (when they are ready). These kind of people are real and so is there confusion. If they are left to imbibe the Gospels of Jeff Yang or the tired histories of Asian Studies professors -- then truly Asian-American identity as project will surely collapse into a fate ostensibly worse than the Irish becoming white.
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- Ryan Perry
- 11-02-21
Great story, narrator’s gotta chill
Narrator is way too breathy and dramatic, doesn’t match JCK’s style at all. Really unnecessary and distracting.
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- J
- 03-04-22
Much food for thought
I wish Mr. Kang narrated his own work. Mr. Kim's pace was so slow, I had to set the audio speed at 1.25 in order to listen. I heard Mr. Kang on a NYT podcast, which is how I came to buy the audiobook. I really wanted to hear his voice on this.
The topic is interesting unless you have no interest in race, politics and culture. I learned many new things and am prompted to follow-up on these issues further. This is my first book on the Asian American male perspective. I feel compelled to ask my son whether he's familiar with the Reddit pages on AA male angst, but will probably just hack his internet history like a good Asian mom. I find the idea of toxic AA masculinity frightening given the context raised in this book. It doesn't make sense to me as an Asian woman and mother. It's really toxic masculinity without race needing to be brought into the mix.
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- LisaV
- 12-20-22
Surprising, maddening and Thought Provoking
Often when I read about the Asian experience it’s usually about early history before contact with the west. This was very different because I had not read about the modern experience of being Asian in America up to and including the current Covid pandemic. Reading the section about African Americans certainly got my attention…there was a bit of juvenile teasing (haha you were poor and not as good as the other upper class black kids) and what felt like a “pick me” sense…reminded me of a kid appealing to a parent who is continually focused on the difficult sibling. I wondered what “Micah” thought. I almost stopped listening but I pressed on. What I like about this author is he is willing to expose how he feels, warts and all…not pc at all. I think he had a good sense of how Asians are perceived but I’m not sure about his solutions. However I liked the book. More please.
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- Narrated by: Cindy Kay
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Original and expansive, Asian American Histories of the United States is a nearly 200-year history of Asian migration, labor, and community formation in the US. Reckoning with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the surge in anti-Asian hate and violence, award-winning historian Catherine Ceniza Choy presents an urgent social history of the fastest growing group of Americans. The book features the lived experiences and diverse voices of immigrants, refugees, US-born Asian Americans, multiracial Americans, and workers from industries spanning agriculture to healthcare.
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A valuable history pertinent to our times
- By Joyce Rodgers on 06-24-23
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Minor Feelings
- An Asian American Reckoning
- By: Cathy Park Hong
- Narrated by: Cathy Park Hong
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose fresh truths about racialized consciousness in America. Part memoir and part cultural criticism, this collection is vulnerable, humorous, and provocative—and its relentless and riveting pursuit of vital questions around family and friendship, art and politics, identity and individuality, will change the way you think about our world.
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Essential
- By Realness on 03-04-20
By: Cathy Park Hong
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The Dead Do Not Improve
- A Novel
- By: Jay Caspian Kang
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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On a residential Bay Area block struggling with the collision of gentrifier condos and longtime residents, stymied recent MFA grad Philip Kim is sleeping the night away when bullets fly through a window in his apartment building and end up killing one of his neighbors. But when Philip gets caught up in the investigation and becomes the focus of an elaborate, violent scheme, he will learn far more than he ever wanted to about his former four-eggs-at-a-time borrowing neighbor, Dolores Stone.
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Audible and Amazon have refused to help me
- By JC on 09-17-12
By: Jay Caspian Kang
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Permission to Come Home
- Reclaiming Mental Health as Asian Americans
- By: Jenny Wang
- Narrated by: Jenny Wang
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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Permission to Come Home confronts and destabilizes the stigma Asian Americans face in caring for their mental health. Weaving her personal narrative as a Taiwanese American and insights as a clinician with evidenced-based tools, Dr. Jenny T. Wang offers listeners permission to embrace their mental and emotional self-care while understanding and honoring the richness of their heritage and embodying a new, complete identity. In ten chapters, each one focusing on a central theme, Dr. Wang presents a road map for the journey to wholeness.
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Grateful that you shared this story
- By Olivia M on 08-27-22
By: Jenny Wang
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Biting the Hand
- Growing Up Asian in Black and White America
- By: Julia Lee
- Narrated by: Julia Lee
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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When Julia Lee was fifteen, her hometown went up in smoke during the 1992 Los Angeles riots. The daughter of Korean immigrant store owners in a predominantly Black neighborhood, Julia was taught to be grateful for the privilege afforded to her. However, the acquittal of four white police officers in the beating of Rodney King, following the murder of Latasha Harlins by a Korean shopkeeper, forced Julia to question her racial identity and complicity. She was neither Black nor white. So who was she?
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She has something to say!
- By Eva on 06-16-23
By: Julia Lee
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Strangers from a Different Shore
- A History of Asian Americans
- By: Ronald Takaki
- Narrated by: David Shih
- Length: 24 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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In an extraordinary blend of narrative history, personal recollection, and oral testimony, the author presents a sweeping history of Asian Americans. This is a powerful and moving work that will resonate for all Americans, who together make up a nation of immigrants from other shores.
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Eye opening to the way immigrants are treated
- By Amazon Customer on 10-06-20
By: Ronald Takaki
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Asian American Histories of the United States
- Revisioning History
- By: Catherine Ceniza Choy
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Original and expansive, Asian American Histories of the United States is a nearly 200-year history of Asian migration, labor, and community formation in the US. Reckoning with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the surge in anti-Asian hate and violence, award-winning historian Catherine Ceniza Choy presents an urgent social history of the fastest growing group of Americans. The book features the lived experiences and diverse voices of immigrants, refugees, US-born Asian Americans, multiracial Americans, and workers from industries spanning agriculture to healthcare.
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A valuable history pertinent to our times
- By Joyce Rodgers on 06-24-23
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Minor Feelings
- An Asian American Reckoning
- By: Cathy Park Hong
- Narrated by: Cathy Park Hong
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose fresh truths about racialized consciousness in America. Part memoir and part cultural criticism, this collection is vulnerable, humorous, and provocative—and its relentless and riveting pursuit of vital questions around family and friendship, art and politics, identity and individuality, will change the way you think about our world.
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Essential
- By Realness on 03-04-20
By: Cathy Park Hong
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The Dead Do Not Improve
- A Novel
- By: Jay Caspian Kang
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
On a residential Bay Area block struggling with the collision of gentrifier condos and longtime residents, stymied recent MFA grad Philip Kim is sleeping the night away when bullets fly through a window in his apartment building and end up killing one of his neighbors. But when Philip gets caught up in the investigation and becomes the focus of an elaborate, violent scheme, he will learn far more than he ever wanted to about his former four-eggs-at-a-time borrowing neighbor, Dolores Stone.
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Audible and Amazon have refused to help me
- By JC on 09-17-12
By: Jay Caspian Kang
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Permission to Come Home
- Reclaiming Mental Health as Asian Americans
- By: Jenny Wang
- Narrated by: Jenny Wang
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Permission to Come Home confronts and destabilizes the stigma Asian Americans face in caring for their mental health. Weaving her personal narrative as a Taiwanese American and insights as a clinician with evidenced-based tools, Dr. Jenny T. Wang offers listeners permission to embrace their mental and emotional self-care while understanding and honoring the richness of their heritage and embodying a new, complete identity. In ten chapters, each one focusing on a central theme, Dr. Wang presents a road map for the journey to wholeness.
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Grateful that you shared this story
- By Olivia M on 08-27-22
By: Jenny Wang
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The Making of Asian America
- A History
- By: Erika Lee
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 15 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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In the past 50 years, Asian Americans have helped change the face of America and are now the fastest growing group in the United States. The Making of Asian America tells the little-known history of Asian Americans and their role in American life, from the arrival of the first Asians in the Americas to the present-day.
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Great content, terrible narration
- By Mrs. Rdz on 10-24-15
By: Erika Lee
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An Inconvenient Minority
- The Harvard Admissions Case and the Attack on Asian American Excellence
- By: Kenny Xu
- Narrated by: Nathan Guo
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Even in the midst of a nationwide surge of bias and incidents against them, Asians from coast to coast have quietly assumed mastery of the nation's technical and intellectual machinery and become essential American workers. Yet, they've been forced to do so in the face of policy proposals—written in the name of diversity—excluding them from the upper ranks of the elite. Journalist Kenny Xu traces elite America's longstanding unease about a minority potentially upending them.
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necessary reading for our times
- By zuluwhiskey on 09-22-23
By: Kenny Xu
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Interior Chinatown
- A Novel
- By: Charles Yu
- Narrated by: Joel de la Fuente
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Willis Wu doesn’t perceive himself as a protagonist even in his own life: He’s merely Generic Asian man. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but he is always relegated to a prop. Yet every day he leaves his tiny room in a Chinatown SRO and enters the Golden Palace restaurant, where Black and White, a procedural cop show, is in perpetual production. He’s a bit player here, too, but he dreams of being Kung Fu Guy - the most respected role that anyone who looks like him can attain. At least that’s what he has been told.
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Kong Fu Guy
- By JCY on 01-30-20
By: Charles Yu
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Tastes Like War
- A Memoir
- By: Grace M. Cho
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Grace M. Cho grew up as the daughter of a White American merchant marine and the Korean bar hostess he met abroad. They were one of few immigrants in a xenophobic small town during the Cold War, where identity was politicized by everyday details - language, cultural references, memories, and food. When Grace was 15, her dynamic mother experienced the onset of schizophrenia. Tastes Like War is a hybrid text about a daughter’s search through intimate and global history for the roots of her mother’s schizophrenia.
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Incredible
- By Anonymous User on 10-02-21
By: Grace M. Cho
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All You Can Ever Know
- A Memoir
- By: Nicole Chung
- Narrated by: Janet Song
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Nicole Chung was born premature, placed for adoption by her Korean parents, and raised by a white family in a sheltered Oregon town. From childhood, she heard the story of her adoption as a comforting, prepackaged myth. She believed that her biological parents had made the ultimate sacrifice in the hope of giving her a better life, that forever feeling slightly out of place was her fate as a transracial adoptee. But as Nicole grew up, she wondered if the story she'd been told was the whole truth.
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Disappointed
- By Senshin on 10-11-18
By: Nicole Chung
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Beautiful Country
- A Memoir
- By: Qian Julie Wang
- Narrated by: Qian Julie Wang
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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In Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates directly to “beautiful country”. Yet when seven-year-old Qian arrives in New York City in 1994 full of curiosity, she is overwhelmed by crushing fear and scarcity. In China, Qian’s parents were professors; in America, her family is “illegal”, and it will require all the determination and small joys they can muster to survive. In Chinatown, Qian’s parents labor in sweatshops. Instead of laughing at her jokes, they fight constantly, taking out the stress of their new life on one another.
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Enough already !
- By Anonymous User on 10-22-21
By: Qian Julie Wang
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We Were Dreamers
- An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story
- By: Simu Liu
- Narrated by: Simu Liu
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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The star of Marvel’s first Asian superhero film, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, tells his own origin story of being a Chinese immigrant, his battles with cultural stereotypes and his own identity, becoming a TV star, and landing the role of a lifetime. In this honest, inspiring and relatable memoir, newly minted superhero Simu Liu chronicles his family's journey from China to the bright lights of Hollywood with razor-sharp wit and humor.
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This Asian-American Approves.
- By Jasmine Y. on 06-04-22
By: Simu Liu
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Year of the Tiger
- An Activist's Life
- By: Alice Wong
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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