Category: General Fiction, Novel, Political
Language: EnglishKeywords: Activism Coming of Age Los Angeles Race
Written by Ryan Lee Wong
Read by Scott Takeda
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 80 Kbps
Unabridged
How can we live with integrity and pleasure in this world of police brutality and racism? An Asian American activist is challenged by his mother to face this question in this powerfulâand funnyâdebut novel of generational change, a motherâs secret, and an activistâs coming-of-age
Twenty-one-year-old Reed is fed up. Angry about the killing of a Black man by an Asian American NYPD officer, he wants to drop out of college and devote himself to the Black Lives Matter movement. But would that truly bring him closer to the moral life he seeks?
In a series of intimate, charged conversations, his motherâonce the leader of a Korean-Black coalitionâdemands that he rethink his outrage, and along with it, what it means to be an organizer, a student, an ally, an American, and a son. As Reed zips around his hometown of Los Angeles with his mother, searching and questioning, he faces a revelation that will change everything.
October 4 2022
5 hrs and 38 mins
How can we live with integrity and pleasure in this world of police brutality and racism? An Asian American activist is challenged by his mother to face this question in this powerfulâand funnyâdebut novel of generational change, a motherâs secret, and an activistâs coming-of-age
Twenty-one-year-old Reed is fed up. Angry about the killing of a Black man by an Asian American NYPD officer, he wants to drop out of college and devote himself to the Black Lives Matter movement. But would that truly bring him closer to the moral life he seeks?
In a series of intimate, charged conversations, his motherâonce the leader of a Korean-Black coalitionâdemands that he rethink his outrage, and along with it, what it means to be an organizer, a student, an ally, an American, and a son. As Reed zips around his hometown of Los Angeles with his mother, searching and questioning, he faces a revelation that will change everything.
October 4 2022
5 hrs and 38 mins