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 Washington Post
An incandescent, exquisitely written memoir about family, food, girlhood, resistance, and growing up in a Chinese American restaurant on the Jersey shore.