Minor Feelings
Written by Cathy Park Hong
Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose fresh truths about racialized consciousness in America.
As the daughter of Korean immigrants, Hong grew up steeped in shame, suspicion, and melancholy. She would later understand that these “minor feelings” occur when American optimism contradicts your own reality, and in their tension Hong finds the key to the questions that haunt her. With sly humor and a poet’s searching mind, she uses her own story as a portal into a deeper examination of racial consciousness in America today.