📗 Libro en inglés FRESH OFF THE BOAT

NOW AN ORIGINAL SERIES ON ABC Just may be the best new comedy of the year based on restaurateur Eddie Huang s memoir of the same name a classic fresh out of water comedy People Bawdy and frequently hilarious a surprisingly sophisticated memoir about race and assimilation in America as much James Baldwin and Jay Z as Amy Tan rowdy and vital It s a book about fitting in by not fitting in at all Dwight Garner The New York Times NATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS Assimilating ain t easy Eddie Huang was raised by a wild family of FOB fresh off the boat immigrants his father a cocksure restaurateur with a dark past back in Taiwan his mother a fierce protector and constant threat Young Eddie tried his hand at everything mainstream America threw his way from white Jesus to macaroni and cheese but finally found his home as leader of a rainbow coalition of lost boys up to no good skate punks dealers hip hop junkies and sneaker freaks This is the story of a Chinese American kid in a could be anywhere cul de sac blazing his way through America s deviant subcultures trying to find himself ten thousand miles from his legacy and anchored only by his conflicted love for his