Big Little Man: In Search of My Asian Self

Tizon, Alex

ISBN 10: 0547450486 / ISBN 13: 9780547450483

Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014

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Signed 1st edition, 1st printing, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt hardcover w/ DJ, 2014. Book is VG+, w/ clean text, tight binding. DJ is VG minus, w/ some corner scuffing and wear to head and tail of spine panel; "award winner" sticker on front panel. Signed by author on title page. Free delivery confirmation. Seller Inventory # SKU1021441

Bibliographic Details

Title: Big Little Man: In Search of My Asian Self

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Publication Date: 2014

Binding: hardcover

Condition: VG

Dust Jacket Condition: VG minus

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

An award-winning writer takes a groundbreaking look at the experience and psyche of the Asian American male.

&8;&8; Alex Tizon landed in an America that saw Asian women as sexy and Asian men as sexless. Immigrating from the Philippines as a young boy, everything he saw and heard taught him to be ashamed of his face, his skin color, his height.

&8;His fierce and funny observations of sex and the Asian American male include his own quest for love during college in the 1980s, a tortured tutorial on stereotypes that still make it hard for Asian men to get the girl. Tizon writes: "I had to educate myself on my own worth. It was a sloppy, piecemeal education, but I had to do it because no one else was going to do it for me."

&8;And then, a transformation. First, Tizon&;s growing understanding that shame is universal: that his own just happened to be about race. Next, seismic cultural changes &; from Jerry Yang&;s phenomenal success with Yahoo! Inc., to actor Ken Watanabe&;s emergence in Hollywood blockbusters, to Jeremy Lin&;s meteoric NBA rise.

&8;Finally, Tizon&;s deeply original, taboo-bending investigation turns outward, tracking the unheard stories of young Asian men today, in a landscape still complex but much changed for the Asian American man.&8;

From the Back Cover:

In Big Little Man Alex Tizon fearlessly penetrates the core of not just what it means to be male and Asian in America, but what it means to be human anywhere. Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild

Part candid memoir, part incisive cultural study, Big Little Man addresses and explodes the stereotypes of Asian manhood. Alex Tizon writes with acumen and courage, and the result is a book at once illuminating and, yes, liberating. Peter Ho Davies