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Our Laundry, Our Town: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond

By Alvin Eng
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By Alvin Eng
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With humor and grace, the memoir of a first-generation Chinese American in New York City.

Our Laundry, Our Town is a memoir that decodes and processes the fractured urban oracle bones of Alvin Eng’s upbringing in Flushing, Queens, in the 1970s. Back then, his family was one of the few immigrant Chinese families in a far-flung neighborhood in New York City. His parents had an arranged marriage and ran a Chinese hand laundry. From behind t...

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