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What an incredible thoughtful and thought provoking read.

The style is a little rambley, but I ultimately found it charming and relatable as the character struggles with the realities of discovering jobs that don't love you back along with new locales where your interracial relationship sticks out more, and the microaggressions are a little more common.

The last of my #AlgorithmExperiment ⬇️ is the best. A moving meditation on belonging and interracial relationships.

Jing is a tech journalist at a SF-based magazine. She and her white boyfriend relocate to Ithaca for his PhD program. She leaves her job and her Chinese friends behind for a very white area. She becomes less and less sure of who she is as her bf retreats into the lab. She makes a visit to her dad in China to help her reconnect.

More #bookmail! + golden hour w/ filter at 3:30 in my sunroom.

Story: these were the cheapest new hardcovers that Amazon thought I‘d like based on their algorithm. How well do you know me Amazon?? 🤨 I guess we‘ll see! #experiment

Here an amazing Asian author if anyone is struggling to find any.
I have added one of her poetry book to my pile.
https://www.alexandrachang.com/
Alexandra Chang check out her amazing books on her website 👏

#readingasian21 #indonesia #china #reading #asianauthor #femaleauthor #readingthelibrary #bookworm #booknerd #book

Enlightening & engaging is this subtle gem. It could only have been written by someone of Chang‘s generation. It grapples with American culture‘s middle- aged ills and pains. It shows where we are & how we got here by telling the story of a first generation Chinese American along side the true texts of the history of Chinese Americans in the US. Hemingwayesque. Truly. Full review here https://www.facebook.com/1082882538/posts/10220820424435421/

A woman spends some time thinking about her job, her boy friend, her father, and how Asian Americans are viewed. Extremely revenant.

Days of Distraction is the perfect title for this book. I loved it, especially the last chapter. The main character is a journalist and the parts about her research on Kim Yamei added an interesting layer to the story. I learned a new word, hiraeth, which means homesickness or nostalgia in Welsh. Ok so I have to admit that I lost track of things and finished this out of order for #bookspinbonanza 🤦🏻‍♀️
#nutsinmay 3/6

📚BOOK MAIL! 📚Over the last couple weeks, I have made several online purchases from indie bookstores around the country, and the books are starting to arrive now. I have read most of these and loved them, but didn‘t own physical copies, so I took this opportunity to correct that. I am very excited to read the rest. And there are still more to come! Do you see any favorites here? 📚❤️📚

💛 Days of Distraction, The Far Field, Antony & Cleopatra
💛 No idea 😂 🤷🏻‍♀️
💛 Optic Nerve
#weekendreads

Days of Distraction captures that time in life when you‘re kind of settled in your job and start wondering how and why you got there. A cross-country move with a long-term partner makes the narrator start to analyze her life more, focusing on the cultural aspects of her mixed-race relationship. There is not a lot of action here, but I enjoyed following along as the narrator tried to sort out these big life puzzles. 4⭐️ #hoopla

This book took me a while to read (I kept getting distracted, harhar) - the Asian American narrator is working in a job she is good at but doesn't necessarily like but also has her stuck unable to get a raise - and then she moves across the country with her boyfriend for his grad school.⤵️

5/5🌟Impressive debut! Follows a Chinese-American millennial, recently graduated and working in technology reporting. Her boyfriend gets an offer to transfer to upstate New York and she sees the move as an opportunity to run away. As the story progresses we get to see her explore her identity, and her past. Chang blew me away with her writing. It was funny and insightful. She explores big themes of race, family, love and work. #bookstagram