Blues and Greens: A Produce Worker's Journal

Alan Chong Lau's poetic memoir of his days as a produce worker in Seattle's Chinatown reveals a microcosm of grassroots, working-class Asian America--a world where customers, workers, and fruits and vegetables intersect in exchanges that crackle with energy and brim over with humor.

With the simple profundity of a Zen koan, the poems bear witness to people's humanity. Lau portrays in words and pictures a community in constant flux as it moves to the push and pull of immigration. Blues and Greens has a lot to say about Asian Americans. What emerges is an acutely observed, nuanced critique of where Asian Americans--native-born, refugee, and migrant--are today.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 04/01/2000
ISBN: 9780824823238
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.44h x 5.51w x 0.36d