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More Perfect Union Book Discussion Group: Minor Feelings

More Perfect Union Book Discussion Group: Minor Feelings In-Person

Join our A More Perfect Union Book Discussion with Social Services Leader, Payton Barger! This book discussion group is a chance to explore, learn and understand more about social topics that might be of interest to you. This month's book pick is Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong. Free copies of the book (yours to keep) are available at Central Library's Upper Level Customer Service Desk for registered participants. Audiobooks and E-books are available on Libby through the Indiana Digital Library. Physical copies will be available one month prior. Registration is required. Coffee and snacks will be provided. 

About the Book:

Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose fresh truths about racialized consciousness in America. Part memoir and part cultural criticism, this collection is vulnerable, humorous, and provocative—and its relentless and riveting pursuit of vital questions around family and friendship, art and politics, identity and individuality, will change the way you think about our world.

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. She would later understand that these “minor feelings” occur when American optimism contradicts your own reality—when you believe the lies you’re told about your own racial identity. Minor feelings are not small, they’re dissonant—and in their tension Hong finds the key to the questions that haunt her. 

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 female friendship. A radically honest work of art, Minor Feelings forms a portrait of one Asian American psyche—and of a writer’s search to both uncover and speak the truth.
 

Date:
Monday, May 13, 2024
Time:
6:00pm - 7:30pm
Time Zone:
Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
Location:
Auditorium
Branch:
New Albany Main Library
Audience:
  Adults  

Registration is required. There are 14 seats available.

Event Organizer

Payton Barger

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