Welcome to J-Sei’s Virtual Book Club
Our next book that we’ll be reading together is MINOR FEELINGS: AN ASIAN AMERICAN RECKONING by Cathy Park Hong
ENGAGING IN BOOK CLUB
Join the Club, Buy the Book
JOIN BOOK CLUB – Join the J-Sei Virtual Book Club and connect with others as we delve into a different book each season. For those interested in participating, send inquiry here.
BUY THE BOOK – We have arranged with Eastwind Books to handle book sales. You can order the book online at the discounted price of 10% off and either pick up at the store, arrange for shipping, or designate J-Sei for delivery/pick-up in your order.
READING – Read the book at your own pace. While you’re reading, you’ll be notified when a posting has been added as a check-in and to solicit your feedback.
REFLECTING – As you’re reading, you can access the secure J-Sei Book Club webpage (password-protected) anytime. On this Members-only webpage you’re free to submit observations, opinions, and questions in the Comment area as it strikes you and share your impressions with fellow Book Club members. Check back regularly to read comments submitted by the moderator and by other Book Club members.
CHAT – For a real-time online chat with fellow Book Club members, connect to DISCORD. Instructions to connect to the J-Sei Discord server are provided on the Members-only webpage.
DISCUSS – After allowing time for members to finish reading the book, we will schedule a Zoom meeting to get together and hear everybody’s thoughts about the book. Other special events may occur; members will be notified in advance. Thank you for your interest in J-Sei Book Club. Happy reading!
— Kathy Hashimoto, moderator
J-Sei Book Club Pick – Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong
Minor Feelings is anything but minor. In these provocative and passionate essays, Cathy Park Hong gives us an incendiary account of what it means to be and to feel Asian American today. Minor Feelings is absolutely necessary. — Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sympathizer
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.
Cathy Park Hong was raised in Los Angeles. She graduated from Oberlin College and has an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is the author of three acclaimed poetry collections, Engine Empire (2012), Dance Dance Revolution (2007), and Translating Mo’um (2002). Recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, Hong is the poetry editor of The New Republic and is a full professor at Rutgers University.
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