Their works gave Julia the vocabulary and, more important, the permission to critically examine her own tortured position as an Asian American, setting off apowerful journey of racial reckoning, atonement, and self-discovery.With prose by turns scathing and heart-wrenching, Julia lays bare the complex disorientation and shame that stem from this country's imposed racial hierarchy.And she argues that Asian Americans must work toward lasting social change alongside Black and brown communities in order to combat the scarcity culture ofwhite supremacy through abundance and joy. In this passionate, no-holds-barred memoir, Julia interrogates her own experiences of marginality and resistance, and ultimately asks what may be the biggest question of all--what can we do?
