NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, FINALIST FOR PULITZER PRIZE, WINNER OF NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD, AMERICAN BOOK AWARD, ONE OF BEST TIME’S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE OF 2021

“Cathy Park Hong’s brilliant, penetrating and unforgettable Minor Feelings is what was missing on our shelf of classics....To read this book is to become more human.”
–Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen

“Minor Feelings is anything but minor. In these provocative and passionate essays, Cathy Park Hong gives us an incendiary account of what it means to be and to feel Asian American today. Minor Feelings is absolutely necessary.”
Viet Thanh Nguyen,Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sympathizer and The Refugees

“Cathy Park Hong’s Minor Feelings truly delivers news we can use. It will educate some and inspire hallelujahs from others; by writing into the heart of her own discomfort, she emerges with a reckoning destined to be a classic.”
–Maggie Nelson, author of The Argonauts, and Bluets

Cathy Park Hong sees us. Her vision and execution are so breathtaking. And so genius. And so absolutely scary. Read it. Re-read it. It will read you.” 
–Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy

An electric intervention, a provocation and a renewal.” 
–Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

Cathy’s book is tremendous. It felt like having someone sit me down in a chair and say your feelings are real and this is how we got here and here is a way out all at once. It broke my heart with relief.” –Mira Jacob, author of Good Talk and The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing

Hong is writing in agonized pursuit of a liberation that doesn’t look white—a new sound, a new affect, a new consciousness—and the result feels like what she was waiting for. Her book is a reminder that we can be, and maybe have to be, what others are waiting for, too.”
–The New Yorker

“Cathy Park Hong's voice is urgent and raw as she unpacks what it’s like to experience prejudice that doesn’t fit into the exact mold of oppression faced by other minorities in the U.S...Hong is brutally self-aware and embraces her anger as she captures how she’s struggled to make sense of her identity.” 
–TIME

“Minor Feelings” is studded with moments [full of] candor and dark humor shot through with glittering self-awareness.” 
–New York Times

Minor Feelings is a major reckoning, pulling no punches as the author uses her life's flashpoints to give voice to a wider Asian American experience, one with cascading consequences.” 
–NPR

“I tore through it, I laughed, I cried, it's about a lot of things. In many ways it’s about race in America, about what it is to be other in America. 
–Lisa Lucas, NBC’s Today Show

Self aware and relentlessly sharp essays. Nimble, smart, and deliberate, Minor Feelings is a major conversation starter." 
–Marie Claire

Minor Feelings begs to be read and re-read, highlighted and underlined and margianalia-ed for decades to come.” 
– Elle