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02895aam a22004218i 4500 001 D2C61432EE2E11ED8D85606C28ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230509010038 008 221220s2023 oru b 000 0aeng 010 $a 2022060779 020 $a 1953534678 020 $a 9781953534675 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 050 00 $a F144.A8 $b W66 2023 082 00 $2 23/eng/20221229 100 1 $a Wong, Jane, $e author. 245 10 $a MEET ME TONIGHT IN ATLANTIC CITY : $b A MEMOIR / $c Jane Wong. 263 $a 2305 264 1 $a Portland, Oregon : $b Tin House, $c [2023] 300 $a pages cm 500 $a 2023/05/16 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 505 0 $a Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City -- Root Canal Street -- A Cheat Sheet for Restaurant Babies -- Give Us Our Crowns -- A Jane by Any Other Name -- Bad Bildungsroman with Table Tennis -- The Object of Love -- To Love a Mosquito -- The Thief -- Snow, Rain, Heat, Pandemic, Gloom of Night -- Finding the Bloodline -- Astonished Enough? 520 $a "In the late 1980s on the Jersey shore, Jane Wong watches her mother shake ants from an MSG bin behind the family's Chinese restaurant. She is a hungry daughter frying crab rangoon for lunch, a child sneaking naps on bags of rice, a playful sister scheming to trap her brother in the freezer before he traps her first. Jane is part of a family staking their claim to the American dream, even as this dream crumbles. Beneath Atlantic City's promise lies her father's gambling addiction, an addiction that causeshim to disappear for days and ultimately leads to the loss of the restaurant. In her debut memoir, Jane Wong tells a new story about Atlantic City, one that resists a single identity, a single story as she writes about making do with what you have--and what you don't. What does it mean, she asks, to be both tender and angry? What is strength without vulnerability--and humor? Filled with beauty found in unexpected places, Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City is a resounding love song of the Asian American working class, a portrait of how we become who we are, and a story of lyric wisdom to hold and to share"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Wong, Jane $x Family. 650 0 $a Chinese American women $z Atlantic City $z Atlantic City $v Biography. 650 0 $a Chinese Americans $z Atlantic City $z Atlantic City $v Biography. 650 0 $a Women poets $z Seattle $z Seattle $v Biography. 650 0 $a Poets $z Seattle $z Seattle $v Biography. 651 0 $a Atlantic City (N.J.) $v Biography. 651 0 $a Seattle (Wash.) $v Biography. 941 $a 5 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231219013432.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20230708011740.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20230704012414.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20230701010116.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20230509010138.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D2C61432EE2E11ED8D85606C28ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search