In The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee, a timely meditation on mixed race politics, identity, and interracial desire, poet Paisley Rekdal -- daughter of a Chinese American mother and a Norwegian father -- chronicles a soul-searching journey that takes her throughout Asia.
Rekdal teaches English in South Korea where her native colleagues call her a "hermaphrodite." A visit to Taipei with her mother, who doesn't know the dialect, leads to the bitter realization that they are only tourists, which makes her further question her identity. Written with remarkable insight and clarity, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee lyrically demonstrates that the shifting frames of identity can be as tricky as they are exhilarating.
