Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant: A Memoir -- Curtis Chin, Paperback

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Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant: A Memoir -- Curtis Chin, PaperbackThis poignant memoir tells the story of Curtis Chin's time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980's Detroit. "Vivid, moving, funny, and heartfelt" Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers Nineteen eighties Detroit was a volatile place to live, but above the fray stood a safe haven: Chung's Cantonese Cuisine, where anyone from the city's first Black mayor to the local drag queens, from a big time Hollywood star to elderly Jewish couples could sit down

Seventeen-year-old Sky has run away to a town of savage Holdouts who refuse to live under the rule of Topos--and who might be able to tell him if his whole life has been a lie

What would the widow do

Yellow Duck

the challenges of moving

The person who helped Bill grow in discernment was Father Ed

a friend from university

in Greener Pastures

while reminding us of the possibilities of community

she's hunting cryptids--creatures whose existence is rumored

Turtle isn't one of the heroes he reads about in stories

who is sick of being trapped at home with her FOUR younger siblings as they all suffer from the chickenpox

But in this Oz of deep moral ambiguity

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