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Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America

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An emotionally charged and downright angry memoir that sizzles against the racial inequalities of America. Julia Lee writes of her search for place in the "land of the free" in a deeply accessible voice tinted with biting humor that adds to the joy it is to read.

A Kirkus Reviews, New York Public Library, and The New Yorker Best Book of the Year

“Biting the Hand—vivid, powerful, and empathetic—grapples with the story of how ‘America’ got made, is made, and will be made. The harshness of this story is often forgotten or misused. This book reminds us of some of its complicated truth.”—Jamaica Kincaid, author of A Small Place

Julia Lee is angry. And she has questions.
What does it mean to be Asian in America? What does it look like to be an ally or an ac...