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The Beauties of My So-Called Asian Life: Vulnerability, Equity, Spirituality

by Thymai Dong-Sheehan

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Between belonging, faith, and identity

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Between belonging, faith, and identity

Thymai Dong-Sheehan’s book considers the unsettled questions of belonging that arise between Vietnamese and American identities, and between Christian and Buddhist traditions. The author frames her life’s path through a series of contrasts, including refugee and French teacher, LSD and PhD, and describes the work as an excavation of who she has been, is, and hopes to become. Vulnerability, equity, and spirituality provide the book’s organizing ideas, linking personal identity with questions of culture and faith.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in Vietnamese American identity and questions of belonging.
  • Readers exploring the intersections of spirituality, faith traditions, and personal identity.
  • Readers interested in reflections on vulnerability and equity.

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Vietnamese American identityBelonging and cultural identitySpirituality and faithVulnerability and equity

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Book overview

Am I Asian or American, or something in between?

Am I Christian or Buddhist, or neither one?

Do I wish to be woke or spiritually awake?

Do I identify as Vietnamese or human?

 

Labeled an alien in the country she calls home, and viewed as a tourist in the homeland where she was born, Thymai Dong-Sheehan ponders these questions as she stumbles through her so-called Asian life.

 

The Beauties of My So-Called Asian Life is an excavation of identity-from Vietnamese refugee to French teacher, from LSD to PhD, from clueless to God-full. On a journey to make sense of who she has been, who she is, and who she wishes to be, good things come to Thymai in threes: vulnerability, equity, and spirituality.

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