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  • Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City

    by Jane Wong ...
    **2024 PNBA Award Winner“[Wong] paints her story with flourish.”―The New York Times“A love letter to Atlantic City and the Asian American working class.”―The Los Angeles Times“Blazing, lyrical.”―The Boston Globe“Joyful. . . . Wong’s memoir invites those who have been overlooked in America to hold up their verses, accolades and solidarity in a collective rejoinder to their detractors.”―The ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • How to Not Be Afraid of Everything

    by Jane Wong ...
    Explores the vulnerable ways we articulate and reckon with fear: fear of intergenerational trauma and the silent, hidden histories of families. What does it mean to grow up in a take-out restaurant, surrounded by food, just a generation after the Great Leap Forward famine in 1958-62? Full of elegy and resilient joy, these poems speak across generations of survival. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Writing the Self-Elegy

    The Past Is Not Disappearing Ink

    by Teresa Leo, Jennifer McCauley, John Chavez, Katherine C. Jueds, Catherine Kyle, Adam Crittenden, Rigoberto Gonzalez, Kyle McCord, Jane Wong, Naomi Ortiz, Denise Leto, Carol Berg, Kristy Bowen, Floydd Michael Elliot, Jehanne Dubrow, Carl Phillips, Bruce Bond, Kevin Prufer, Rusane Morrison, Sheila Black, Lauren Shellberg, Anne Kaier, TC Tolbert, Raymond Luczak, Stephanie Heit, Juliet Cook, Tanaya Winder ...
    An innovative roadmap to facing our past and present selvesHonest, aching, and intimate, self-elegies are unique poems focusing on loss rather than death, mourning versions of the self that are forgotten or that never existed. Within their lyrical frame, multiple selves can coexist—wise and naïve, angry and resigned—along with multiple timelines, each possible path stemming from one small choice ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Dissent and Authority in Early Modern Ireland

    The English Problem from Bale to Shakespeare

    by Jane Wong ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
    Dissent and Authority in Early Modern Ireland: The English Problem from Bale to Shakespeare examines the problems that beset the Tudor administration of Ireland through a range of selected 16th century English narratives. This book is primarily concerned with the period between 1541 and 1603. This bracket provides a framework that charts early modern Irish history from the constitutional change of ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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    Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City

    by Jane Wong ...
    Narrated by Jane Wong ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 46 min

    An Audible Best Memoir Audiobook of 2023An incandescent, exquisitely written memoir about family, food, girlhood, resistance, and growing up in a Chinese American restaurant on the Jersey shore.In the late 1980s on the Jersey shore, Jane Wong watches her mother shake ants from an MSG bin behind the family’s Chinese restaurant. She is a hungry daughter frying crab rangoon for lunch, a child ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Calling a Wolf a Wolf

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