Fresh Off the Boat
2013 • 288 pages
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The ratio of rage to food talk was a surprise - I expected more about “real Taiwanese food” and less about beating people unconscious - yet the change-up was delightful. One hundred percent entertained from first page to last.
If you like your memoirs snappy, snarky, and real, then you're in the right place. Eddie Huang presents a no-holds-barred account of his quirky American family and the immigrant struggle. His voice reverberated in my Puerto Rican-American heart. I love his realist take on what it means to be American, self-made, and knowing when you have to “get in where you fit in.” Huang pulls from his street cred, law school training, literary theory, cultural food history—you name it—as he explains how a sweet punk kid became one of the foremost voices in the culinary world and originator of one of the only shows on American television with an Asian American cast, Fresh Off the Boat.
