Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In
By: Phuc Tran
4.29
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
For anyone who has ever felt like they don't belong, Sigh, Gone shares an irreverent, funny, and mo…
Want to Read $ 12.99"Teenagers and truck drivers: We're all on our way to somewhere else."-Phuc Tran, Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In
"The vessel of my heart couldn't hold both my rage for my father and my love for my mother. Like glass subjected to heat and cold, I cracked."-Phuc Tran, Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In
"Was this the real me? Stripped of the ability to look like a punk- what defined me as one? Not my jacket. Not my clothes. My friends? My enemies? No. What I did determined who I was, not what I looked like or what I liked. My actions and reactions. Did I emerge from the shell? I felt naked and free. Was I now pupa or chrysalis? I felt like myself- and that was what punk was. The freedom to be who I was unapologetically, even if I hadn't chosen it."-Phuc Tran, Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In
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3.83
Format: 28 pages, Hardcover
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2. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
By: Kathleen Hanna
4.46
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more
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"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
3. James
By: Percival Everett
4.54
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
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4. A Living Remedy: A Memoir
By: Nicole Chung
4.01
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
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"How do you learn to cherish yourself, your life, when grief has made it unrecognizable? I am starting to feel that we do so not by trying to fill a void that can never be filled but by living as best…"-Nicole Chung, A Living Remedy: A Memoir
5. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
By: James McBride
4.00
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
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6. Wandering Stars
By: Tommy Orange
3.89
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
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7. Real Americans
By: Rachel Khong
4.04
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny?… read more
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8. Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere
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3.77
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
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9. Leslie F*cking Jones
By: Leslie Jones
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Hey you guys, it’s Leslie. I’m excited to share my story with you. Now, I’m gonna be honest: Som… read more
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"Dad"-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones
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10. What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
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4.52
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the… read more
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11. Stay True
By: Hua Hsu
4.03
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
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12. Beneficence
By: Meredith Hall
4.29
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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13. Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
By: Cathy Park Hong
4.21
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
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"the curse of anyone nonwhite is that you are so busy arguing what you're not that you never arrive at what you are."-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
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14. Pageboy
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Format: 271 pages, None
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"The more I paid attention, the more I noticed just how often 'apathy,' 'lack of feeling,' and the word 'sociopath' were associated with evil. Everywhere. From celebrated books like East of Eden and T…"-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir
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4.47
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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17. One Way Back: A Memoir
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4.30
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18. Night of the Living Rez
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19. Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It
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3.97
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20. Call Me American: A Memoir
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21. The Manicurist's Daughter
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22. Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America
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4.34
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23. Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
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4.38
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25. Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains
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3.67
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"We broke the rules of our family's way of life, rules they encouraged us to break; we chose different paths."-Kerri Arsenault, Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains
26. A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial
By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
4.35
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
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27. Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes
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4.11
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
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"We're minorities within minorities, I'd often repeat to my friend, in an attempt to subdue his frustration with the compounding obstacles of his life."-Anthony Veasna So, Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes
"You can only keep up the precarious act of sustaining this fantasy of a better world for so long when not much has actually changed in our favor. But as long as there's something new in our queue, af…"-Anthony Veasna So, Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes
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28. Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming
By: Ava Chin
3.98
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
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"I am trying to keep it all together -- not lashing out in anger, not bursting into tears, because what is anger, but pain masquerading as bravado?"-Ava Chin, Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming
29. Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In
By: Phuc Tran
4.29
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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"Teenagers and truck drivers: We're all on our way to somewhere else."-Phuc Tran, Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In
"The vessel of my heart couldn't hold both my rage for my father and my love for my mother. Like glass subjected to heat and cold, I cracked."-Phuc Tran, Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In
"Was this the real me? Stripped of the ability to look like a punk- what defined me as one? Not my jacket. Not my clothes. My friends? My enemies? No. What I did determined who I was, not what I looke…"-Phuc Tran, Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In
30. Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl
By: Hyeseung Song
4.13
Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition
For readers of Crying in H Mart and Minor Feelings as well as lovers of the film Minari comes a sea… read more
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31. Family in Six Tones: A Refugee Mother, an American Daughter
By: Lan Cao
3.87
Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition
"A brilliant duet and a moving exploration of the American immigrant experience."--Ruth Ozeki, auth… read more
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"We don't say "I love you" or "thank you" to our parents because it would feel contrived to say those words to ourselves. Our parents and we are one and the same."-Lan Cao, Family in Six Tones: A Refugee Mother, an American Daughter
