A review by erinthelibrarian
Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir by Eddie Huang

5.0

This was a near perfect memoir. I love to glimpse into other people's lives and view the world through their eyes, ears and experiences. Eddie Huang is a unique, fascinating, and brilliant person. His Chinese/Taiwanese American roots, his family, his friends, his socio-economic shifting and his experience of food makes for a full realized and fucking hilarious read. Huang's love and expression of hip-hop culture is so intoxicating and clearly evoked with his generous use of slang and colloquial phrases throughout the book as well. His thoughts and experiences on race, diversity and the "American" experience are great reading - it's a wonderful combination of light and heavy with profound insights popping up throughout irreverent riffs on weed, culture, food and music. I just want to get to Bauhaus after 11:00pm to experience the hotbox before he moves on to his next adventure.