The Resource Which side are you on : a novel, Ryan Lee Wong

Which side are you on : a novel, Ryan Lee Wong

Label
Which side are you on : a novel
Title
Which side are you on
Title remainder
a novel
Statement of responsibility
Ryan Lee Wong
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
How can we live with integrity and pleasure in this world of police brutality and racism? An Asian American activist is challenged by his mother to face this question in this powerful--and funny--debut novel of generational change, a mother's secret, and an activist's coming-of-age. Twenty-one-year-old Reed is fed up. Angry about the killing of a Black man by an Asian American NYPD officer, he wants to drop out of college and devote himself to the Black Lives Matter movement. But would that truly bring him closer to the moral life he seeks? In a series of intimate, charged conversations, his mother--once the leader of a Korean-Black coalition--demands that he rethink his outrage, and along with it, what it means to be an organizer, a student, an ally, an American, and a son. As Reed zips around his hometown of Los Angeles with his mother, searching and questioning, he faces a revelation that will change everything. Inspired by his family's roots in activism, Ryan Lee Wong offers an extraordinary debut novel for readers of Anthony Veasna So, Rachel Kushner, and Michelle Zauner: a book that is as humorous as it is profound, a celebration of seeking a life that is both virtuous and fun, an ode to mothering and being mothered
Cataloging source
YDX
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Wong, Ryan Lee
Dewey number
813/.6
Index
no index present
LC call number
PS3623.O5983
LC item number
W55 2022
Literary form
fiction
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Asian Americans
  • Asian American men
  • Political activists
  • Mothers and sons
  • College students
Label
Which side are you on : a novel, Ryan Lee Wong
Instantiates
Publication
Copyright
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
on1291874327
Dimensions
24 cm
Edition
First Catapult edition.
Extent
175 pages
Isbn
9781646221486
Lccn
2022933780
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)1291874327
Label
Which side are you on : a novel, Ryan Lee Wong
Publication
Copyright
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
on1291874327
Dimensions
24 cm
Edition
First Catapult edition.
Extent
175 pages
Isbn
9781646221486
Lccn
2022933780
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)1291874327

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