Year of the Tiger

Name: Year of the Tiger
Brand: Random House USA Inc
SKU: 9780593315392
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An Activist's Life

By Alice Wong

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( 3,170 ratings, 526 reviews)

Summary

Year of the Tiger by Alice Wong is a memoir that weaves personal anecdotes with insightful commentary on disability, identity, and advocacy. Through her experiences, Wong offers a candid look at the challenges and triumphs faced by the disabled community, providing an inspiring narrative that promotes understanding and inclusion.
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You might enjoy this book if you're interested in personal essays that explore disability culture, identity, and activism with humour and insight. Alice Wong's storytelling is both powerful and heartwarming, offering a unique perspective on resilience and advocacy.

Year of the Tiger

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This groundbreaking memoir offers a glimpse into an activist's journey to finding and cultivating community and the continued fight for disability justice, from the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project.

National Bestseller. One of USA Today's Must-Read Books.

"Alice Wong provides deep truths in this fun and deceptively easy read about her survival in this hectic and ableist society." - Selma Blair, bestselling author of Mean Baby

In Chinese culture, the tiger is deeply revered for its confidence, passion, ambition, and ferocity. That same fighting spirit resides in Alice Wong.

Drawing on a collection of original essays, previously published work, conversations, graphics, photos, commissioned art by disabled and Asian American artists, and more, Alice uses her unique talent to share an impressionistic scrapbook of her life as an Asian American disabled activist, community organizer, media maker, and dreamer. From her love of food and pop culture to her unwavering commitment to dismantling systemic ableism, Alice shares her thoughts on creativity, access, power, care, the pandemic, mortality, and the future.

As a self-described disabled oracle, Alice traces her origins, tells her story, and creates a space for disabled people to be in conversation with one another and the world. Filled with incisive wit, joy, and rage, Wong's Year of the Tiger will galvanize readers with big cat energy.

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The critical reception of Year of the Tiger by Alice Wong has been overwhelmingly positive. Reviewers celebrate its innovative hybrid structure, mixing essays, interviews, and artwork to provide an intimate, candid, and multifaceted memoir. Wong is praised for her sharp critiques on systemic ableism, her vibrant storytelling, and her ability to blend humour, rage, and optimism. This memoir is seen as a vital, empowering, and groundbreaking contribution to disability literature and social activism.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780593315392

Publisher: Random House USA Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 September 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Vintage Books

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 132.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 352

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About the Author

Alice Wong is a disabled activist, media maker, and research consultant based in San Francisco, California. She is the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project-an online community dedicated to creating, sharing, and amplifying disability media and culture-and the editor of the anthology Disability Visibility- First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century and Disability Visibility- 17 First-Person Stories for Today (Adapted for Young Adults). Alice is also the host and coproducer of the Disability Visibility podcast and copartner in a number of collaborations such as #CripTheVote and Access Is Love. From 2013 to 2015, Alice served as a member of the National Council on Disability, an appointment by President Barack Obama. She is currently working on her next anthology, Disability Intimacy, forthcoming from Vintage Books.