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This HaBO request comes from M.M.V.Z., who is looking for a book that was read in the last few months:
I was trying to find something new to read and have been downloading a lot of samples from Amazon.
The one I’d like to find again was written in first person. A Japanese American heroine (could also be Chinese American or an emigrant) was talking about her experience in New York’s Public Library when a white guy made a pass to her. She politely listened to him until he became very rude, and then she left because he talked to her as if she were kind of a ‘fetish’.
I thought I kept the sample until I was ready to buy it, but somehow it was deleted with some other titles.
I read this first sample chapter within the last six months.
Does anyone know this one?
Commenting because I want to know when you find out
It might be The Dim Sum of All Things by Kim Wong Keltner, or its sequel, Buddha Baby? I don’t remember that incident specifically, but I do remember the (1st-person) heroine commenting on how only white dudes with creepy China-Doll Asian fetishes try and talk to her.
I also thought about The Dim Sum of All Things (Hoarders of All Things Asian is what the heroine calls creepers), but I recall that was set in San Francisco.
Was it this article?
https://www.buzzfeed.com/estherwang/why-i-love-watching-and-reading-about-white-people-having-30?utm_term=.quEYNYyDm1#.ha6KbKMPL6
Even if it isn’t, that article is brilliant.
@Kyrce–thank you–VERY interesting article!
@Kyrce
I think you found what I was looking for! Thanks
I can’t believe that my memory played me so false!
Thanks again
Loved that article that was linked to. I am also now reading The Dim Sum of All Things. I love it! I’m half Chinese so relate to that between two worlds thread that runs through the book. I’m usually super critical when there is an Asian character (because it’s usually so stereotypical) but I really like Lindsey.