The Rice Room: Growing Up Chinese-American from Number Two Son to Rock 'n' Roll
by Ben Fong-Torres
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Author: Ben Fong-TorresEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1995-05-01
ISBN: 0452274125
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Plume
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Book Review: East doesn't quite meet West...
Summary: 5 Stars
Ben Fong-Torres succeeds in writing a poignant story of growing up in urban America with Chinese roots in San Francisco's East Bay.As the book description indicates, this story has little to do with Fong-Torres tenure at Rolling Stone magazine or the music industry. Instead, we are shown how the need to be American sometimes causes an alienation with our parents' culture that makes that melting pot not quite as worthwhile trying to achieve as we are led to believe.
A good book and I highly recommend it for those that would like to read how painful assimilation can be for even those born American.
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