May: "Everything I Learn\, I Learned in a Chinese Restaur ant" by Curtis Chin
\nThis &ldquo\;vivid\, moving\, funny\, and heartfelt&rdquo\; memoir tells the story of Curtis Chin&rsquo\;s time grow ing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980&rsquo\;s Detroit (Lisa Ko\, a uthor of \;The Leavers).
\nNineteen eighties Detroit was a volat ile place to live\, but above the fray stood a safe haven: Chung&rsquo\;s Cantonese Cuisine\, where anyone&mdash\;from the city&rsquo\;s first Black mayor to the local drag queens\, from a big-time Hollywood star to elderl y Jewish couples&mdash\;could sit down for a warm\, home-cooked meal. Here was where\, beneath a bright-red awning and surrounded by his multigenera tional family\, filmmaker and activist Curtis Chin came of age\; where he learned to embrace his identity as a gay ABC\, or American-born Chinese\; where he navigated the divided city&rsquo\;s spiraling misfortunes\; and w here&mdash\;between helpings of almond boneless chicken\, sweet-and-sour p ork\, and some of his own\, less-savory culinary concoctions&mdash\;he rea lized just how much he had to offer to the world\, to his beloved family\, and to himself.
\nServed up by the cofounder of the Asian American Writers&rsquo\; Workshop and structured around the very menu that graced t he tables of Chung&rsquo\;s\, \;Everything I Learned\, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant \;is both a memoir and an invitation: to step insid e one boy&rsquo\;s childhood oasis\, scoot into a vinyl booth\, and grow u p with him&mdash\;and perhaps even share something off the secret menu.
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