It's a unique condition that's distinctly Asian, in that some of us are economically doing better than any other minority group but we barely exist anywhere in the public eye.
But when we complain, Americans suddenly know everything about us.
Why are you pissed?
You're next in line to be white.
As if we're iPads queued up in an assembly line.
Minor feelings is my own personal reckoning on the Asian American condition and what it means to live in this country as an Asian American.
The recent urgency that I felt was to write from a personal perspective.
When I became pregnant, I found out I was going to have a girl.
I wanted her to be comfortable in her skin, in the way that I wasn't.
So it was important for me to write a book where I could sort of try to change this country's consciousness.
