A review by lexish00
Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir by Eddie Huang

4.0

I wanted to read this because I watched the sitcom and enjoyed it. Coming as a shock to no one, the ABC sitcom is HIGHLY sanitized! Yet even though the show gave us an unrealistically wholesome family, I found that the real narrator Eddie Huang was still wholesome. Just different. The family he described is often abusive and dismissive, supportive of some things and entirely uncaring in others. He completely eschews a black and white story and doesn’t easily fit in a box. And for that, I love him. He gives us the good and the bad and is unapologetic.

He’s also sometimes a bit full of himself, but it’s mostly entertaining IMO. The book does get a bit repetitive, how many stories about smoking weed do I need to get the point? But I’m a sucker for complicated origin stories so overall I liked it!