Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong

4/27/21 - 6/1/21 Tuesdays- 5:30pm -7:00pm Facilitated by Andrea M. Garr-Barnes, MSW, Equity and Inclusion Practitioner & Facilitator 50 Person Max Capacity Register by April 22 at: http://bit.ly/communityreadingcircle Binding these essays together is Hong’s theory of “minor feelings.” As the daughter of Korean immigrants, Cathy Park Hong grew up steeped in shame, suspicion, and melancholy. With sly humor and a poet’s searching mind, Hong uses her own story as a portal into a deeper examination of racial consciousness in America today. This intimate and devastating book traces her relationship to the English language, to shame and depression, to poetry and...