The release date for the English version of 'Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning' by
Cathy Park Hong is Feb 2020. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong reveals the reality of racist consciousness in America by fusing historical narrative, cultural criticism, and autobiographical. Hong's theory of "minor feelings" connects these pieces.
Cathy Park Hong, a Korean immigrant's daughter, experienced a childhood filled with guilt, mistrust, and depression. She would later come to realize that these "minor feelings" arise when you believe the falsehoods propagated about your own racial identity—when American optimism defies reality.
Hong uses her own experience as a starting point for a more in-depth analysis of contemporary American racial consciousness. In an attempt to both find and express the truth, this book explores the author's relationship with the English language, with shame and depression, with poetry and art, with family, and with female friendships.