The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee: Observations on Not Fitting In

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While you come from a mixed race background as Paisley Rekdal does — her mother is Chinese American and her father is Norwegian– thorny issues of identity politics, and interracial desire are never far from the surface. Here on this hypnotic blend of personal essay and travelogue, Rekdal journeys right through Asia to explore her place in a world where one’s “appearance is the deciding factor of one’s ethnicity.”

In her soul-searching voyage, she teaches English in South Korea where her native colleagues call her a “hermaphrodite,” and is dismissed by her host circle of relatives in Japan as an American regardless of her assertion of being half-Chinese. A seek advice from to Taipei with her mother, who doesn’t know the dialect, results in the bitter realization that they’re only tourists, which makes her further question her identity. Written with remarkable insight and clarity, Rekdal a poet whose fierce lyricism is apparent on each page, demonstrates that the shifting frames of identity will also be as tricky as they’re exhilarating.

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