Table of Contents
Introduction Suchin Pak 1
Time Teresa Hsiao 11
Listen Asshole Yellow Rage 15
Rishi's Night: A One-Act Monologue Play Moss Perricone 21
I Don't Want to Write Today Shing Yin Khor 32
Destiny Manifest H'Rina Detroy 48
Going Country Nathan Ramos-Park 53
Confessions of a Banana Heather Jeng Bladt 59
Bangla, in Black and White Tanais 69
The Ring Amna Nawaz 78
A bad day Catzie Vilayphonh 84
Fourteen Ways of Being Asian in America over Thirty-Six Years Melissa De La Cruz 89
Why We Don't Always Fight Edmund Lee 97
A Pair of Shorts Kao Kalia Yang 106
Slingshots of the Ignorant Aisha Sultan 114
Untitled Trung Le Nguyen 122
Things Better Left Unsaid Duong Nguyen Ca Dao 127
How Do I Begin to Speak of Your Perfection? Sokunthary Svay 133
On Being Black and Asian in America Kimiko Matsuda-Lawrence 138
An Incomplete Silence Kim Tran 149
Ten Things You Should Know about Being an Asian from the South G Yamazawa 154
Unzipping Riss M. Neilson 158
The Question Mark Kramer 168
Working While Asian Ellen K. Pao 176
Facing Myself David Kwong 183
Places Gayle Gaviola 190
My First Rodeo Yoonj Kim 197
The Next Draft Aneesh Raman 205
Museum in Her Head Marie Lu 218
Afterword Michelle K. Sugihara 227
Acknowledgments 233
Resources 235
Quotation Sources 237
Biographies 239