MINOR FEELINGS

The daughter of Korean immigrants, Cathy Park Hong grew up in America steeped in shame, suspicion, and melancholy. She would later u nderstand that these minor feelings occur when American optimism contradicts your own reality. With sly humour and a poet's searchin g mind, Hong uses her own story as a portal into a deeper examination of racial consciousness. This intimate and devastating book tr aces her relationship to the English language, to shame and depression, to poetry and artmaking, and to family and female friendship .