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In her new novel The Love Wife, about the fragile, polyracial Wong family, Jen moves one generational step down the immigrant experience. Those children once fresh off the boat are now grown up, with families of their own, bigger houses, dead parents. But far from being settled by the security...
That goes for even the newest arrivals, like Lan, the mainland-Chinese woman whose entry into the Wong family upsets the delicate balance among the novel's leading voice, Chinese-American Carnegie, his Wasp wife Blondie, and their two adopted Asian daughters and Eurasian biological son. Not even Lan knows...
The author makes the subtext of that question clear: in an America of blonde Wongs, will the pull of the "natural" undermine what has been constructed by love? Jen is the least heavy-handed of authors, and she lets her characters, in their carefully crafted voices, find their own way...
Sadly, the “Gay or Asian?” article is not so much an anomaly as it is part of an alarming pattern of discrimination against Asian Americans. Abercrombie & Fitch previously sold shirts that read “Two Wongs can make it white” and...
On Friday, Abercrombie & Fitch recalled a new line of Asian-themed graphic t-shirts, wisely but belatedly recognizing that they are patently offensive and lack any comedic value. Five such shirts had already reached its retail stores, website and catalogue, including one with the racist message, “Wong...