The Good Asian
2021 • 128 pages
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Average rating3.7
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Ratings3
Average rating3.7
Following Edison Harki, a haunted, self-loathing Chinese-American detective on the trail of a killer in 1936 Chinatown, THE GOOD ASIAN is Chinatown noir starring the first generation of Americans to come of age under an immigration ban, the Chinese, as they're besieged by rampant murders, abusive police, and a world that seemingly never changes.
Series
2 primary booksThe Good Asian is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2021 with contributions by Pornsak Pichetshote.
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Good grief, this is fantastic. Noir is such a stereotypical whites-only genre and Pichetshote uses it to magnificently depict the alienation lived by immigrants both then and now.
