{"product_id":"9781328460141","title":"Big Little Man: In Search of My Asian Self","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eA “searingly honest self-exploration”* of the experience and psyche of the Asian American male (*\u003ci\u003eNew York Times), \u003c\/i\u003eincluding Tizon's stunning final article, \"My Family's Slave\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShame, Alex Tizon tells us, is universal—his own happened to be about race. To counteract the steady diet of American television and movies that taught Tizon to be ashamed of his face, his skin color, his height, he turned outward. (“I had to educate myself on my own worth. It was a sloppy, piecemeal education, but I had to do it because no one else was going to do it for me.”) Tizon illuminates historical figures who had and still have no place in American history books or classrooms; he delivers the unheard stories of young Asian men today; and he tracks the rise of powerful, dynamic Asian-American men like Yahoo! cofounder Jerry Yang, actor Ken Watanabe, and NBA star Jeremy Lin. As funny as it is fierce, \u003ci\u003eBig Little Man\u003c\/i\u003e interweaves memoir and social criticism in a deeply original, taboo-bending investigation of Asian-American masculinity, with “its multitude of inheritances and prospects” (\u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e).   Included in this new edition of \u003ci\u003eBig Little Man\u003c\/i\u003e is Alex Tizon’s “My Family’s Slave.” Published posthumously in the \u003ci\u003eAtlantic \u003c\/i\u003eonly weeks after Tizon’s death in 2017, the piece is a provocative, haunting, and ultimately redemptive coda.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47036141830384,"sku":"9781328460141","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781328460141_p0.jpg?v=1763708054","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781328460141","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}