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

by Thymai Dong-Sheehan

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Identity across cultures and belief

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Identity across cultures and belief

Thymai Dong-Sheehan’s memoir traces questions of belonging across Vietnamese and American identities, Christian and Buddhist traditions, and the experience of being regarded as an outsider both in the United States and in her birthplace. The description frames her life as a sequence of personal shifts—from refugee to French teacher, from LSD to PhD—and organizes its exploration around vulnerability, equity, and spirituality. These strands make the book’s central subject the work of making sense of a self shaped by migration, culture, and changing beliefs.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in Vietnamese American identity and refugee experience
  • Readers exploring cultural belonging across national or religious identities
  • Readers interested in memoirs centered on spirituality and equity

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Identity and belongingVietnamese refugee experienceCultural and religious identityVulnerability, equity, and spirituality

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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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