Dawn checks in with Phil Yu about being a newish dad, trying to avoid explaining you’re the Angry Asian Man to someone on a plane, and his latest book Rise: A Pop History of Asian American from the Nineties to Now (Harper-Collins Publishers), co-written with Jeff Yang and Philip Wang.
In celebration of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we will be featuring interviews with authors of books centering the experiences of the Asian American community. From Here is also hosting a book giveaway for May 2022. You can enter our drawing here.
Thanks to Eastwind Books of Berkeley for being our partners for this book giveaway. Support independent bookstores!
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