The Loneliest Americans

这本书最尖锐之处，在于它拒绝让'亚裔'成为一个温情脉脉的整体。作者直面一个刺眼的现实：同为移民后代，有人因经济利益而'apolitical'，甚至投票支持种族主义者；有人凭借阶层上升'融入whiteness'；而底层劳工的挣扎却无人倾听。亚裔内部被种族、阶级、地域切割得支离破碎——韩城与Flushing、华裔与南亚人、亚裔与非裔之间微妙甚至紧张的关系，构成了一幅拒绝和解的图景。它不是一本让人舒服的身份认同赞歌，而是一次毫不妥协的剖白：所谓'美国最孤独的群体'，孤独不仅来自外部歧视，更来自彼此之间的隔阂与分歧。适合那些愿意直面族群内部裂痕、而非寻求慰藉的读者。

Jay Caspian Kang is a writer-at-large for The New York Times Magazine. His other work has appeared in The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker, and on This American Life and Vice, where he worked as an Emmy-nominated correspondent. He is the author of the novel The Dead Do Not Improve, which The Boston Globe called “an extremely smart, funny debut, with moments of haunting beauty.”