Michael Luo

Not much. Actually, that's a great question. For this book, I had a chance to sit down and talk to my parents. And the book spans nearly 200 years and goes back really to the middle of the 19th century and this wave of Chinese migration that preceded my parents. My parents came post-1965.

Not much. Actually, that's a great question. For this book, I had a chance to sit down and talk to my parents. And the book spans nearly 200 years and goes back really to the middle of the 19th century and this wave of Chinese migration that preceded my parents. My parents came post-1965.

Not much. Actually, that's a great question. For this book, I had a chance to sit down and talk to my parents. And the book spans nearly 200 years and goes back really to the middle of the 19th century and this wave of Chinese migration that preceded my parents. My parents came post-1965.

They were born in mainland China, fled to Taiwan when the communists came, and came to the United States for graduate school. And so their migration was a different migration than the heart of my book. But this history relates to their history. And this post-1965 migration kind of ends my book.

They were born in mainland China, fled to Taiwan when the communists came, and came to the United States for graduate school. And so their migration was a different migration than the heart of my book. But this history relates to their history. And this post-1965 migration kind of ends my book.

They were born in mainland China, fled to Taiwan when the communists came, and came to the United States for graduate school. And so their migration was a different migration than the heart of my book. But this history relates to their history. And this post-1965 migration kind of ends my book.

Yeah. The moment that set me on the path to this book is something that happened to me in the fall of 2016. It was in some ways a... a typical moment that many Asian Americans have experienced. Um, but it was also felt, it just left a really deep impression on me.

Yeah. The moment that set me on the path to this book is something that happened to me in the fall of 2016. It was in some ways a... a typical moment that many Asian Americans have experienced. Um, but it was also felt, it just left a really deep impression on me.

Yeah. The moment that set me on the path to this book is something that happened to me in the fall of 2016. It was in some ways a... a typical moment that many Asian Americans have experienced. Um, but it was also felt, it just left a really deep impression on me.

It was a Sunday afternoon after church, a group of friends of ours, we were standing on a block on the Upper East Side and an annoyed woman, kind of just annoyed that we were blocking the sidewalk, brushed past and muttered, go back to China. And what happened in this particular moment was, um, I kind of abandoned my daughter in the stroller and went and ran after her.

It was a Sunday afternoon after church, a group of friends of ours, we were standing on a block on the Upper East Side and an annoyed woman, kind of just annoyed that we were blocking the sidewalk, brushed past and muttered, go back to China. And what happened in this particular moment was, um, I kind of abandoned my daughter in the stroller and went and ran after her.

It was a Sunday afternoon after church, a group of friends of ours, we were standing on a block on the Upper East Side and an annoyed woman, kind of just annoyed that we were blocking the sidewalk, brushed past and muttered, go back to China. And what happened in this particular moment was, um, I kind of abandoned my daughter in the stroller and went and ran after her.

And we kind of had this exchange on the street where she yelled, go back to your effing country. And in the adrenaline-filled moment, I kind of sputtered, I was born in this country. And we went back inside the restaurant. I tweeted about the moment. And it turned into this viral thing. And I ended up writing an open letter to this woman. For the New York Times. For the New York Times.

And we kind of had this exchange on the street where she yelled, go back to your effing country. And in the adrenaline-filled moment, I kind of sputtered, I was born in this country. And we went back inside the restaurant. I tweeted about the moment. And it turned into this viral thing. And I ended up writing an open letter to this woman. For the New York Times. For the New York Times.

And we kind of had this exchange on the street where she yelled, go back to your effing country. And in the adrenaline-filled moment, I kind of sputtered, I was born in this country. And we went back inside the restaurant. I tweeted about the moment. And it turned into this viral thing. And I ended up writing an open letter to this woman. For the New York Times. For the New York Times.

And it kind of generated almost like a week of conversation about Asian Americans and their place in the kind of – racial milieu of the United States. This was the fall of 2016, just before Trumpism had been elected. You kind of felt this curtain of nativism descending. Obviously, it's been a lot has happened since then. So that moment, what I wrote about in that open letter was about this kind of

And it kind of generated almost like a week of conversation about Asian Americans and their place in the kind of – racial milieu of the United States. This was the fall of 2016, just before Trumpism had been elected. You kind of felt this curtain of nativism descending. Obviously, it's been a lot has happened since then. So that moment, what I wrote about in that open letter was about this kind of

And it kind of generated almost like a week of conversation about Asian Americans and their place in the kind of – racial milieu of the United States. This was the fall of 2016, just before Trumpism had been elected. You kind of felt this curtain of nativism descending. Obviously, it's been a lot has happened since then. So that moment, what I wrote about in that open letter was about this kind of

sense of otherizing that a lot of Asian Americans have experienced, this kind of perpetual foreigner syndrome that a lot of people talk about. And I was thinking about my kids. And I was born in the United States, and my kids are two generations removed from my parents' immigrant experience.

sense of otherizing that a lot of Asian Americans have experienced, this kind of perpetual foreigner syndrome that a lot of people talk about. And I was thinking about my kids. And I was born in the United States, and my kids are two generations removed from my parents' immigrant experience.