Our Laundry, Our Town: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond Eng Alvin
Our Laundry, Our Town: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond Eng Alvin NEW IN PAPERBACK!With humor and grace, the memoir of a first-generation Chinese American in…
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Our Laundry, Our Town: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond Eng Alvin
NEW IN PAPERBACK!With humor and grace, the memoir of a first-generation Chinese American in New York City.Our Laundry, Our Town is a memoir that decodes and processes the fractured urban oracle bones of Alvin Eng's upbringing in Flushing, Queens, in the 1970s. His parents had an arranged marriage and ran a Chinese hand laundry. Back then, his family was one of the few immigrant Chinese families in a far-flung neighborhood in New York City.
From behind the counter of his parents' laundry and within the confines of a household that was rooted in a different century and culture, he sought to reconcile this insular home life with the turbulent yet inspiring street life that was all around them--from the faux martial arts of TV's Kung Fu to the burgeoning underworld of the punk rock scene.In the 1970s, NYC, like most of the world, was in