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Mongrel by Justin Chin (1998, Paperback)

Author: Justin Chin
Publisher: St Martins Pr
Publication Date: 1998-11-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0312195133
ISBN-13: 9780312195137
Product ID: EPID988609
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Publication Date:1998-11-01

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Length:178 pages
Height:8.3 in
Width:5.0 in
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Weight:8.0 oz

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Chin is a Singapore-born, California-based, hip, shaved, tattooed, foul-mouthed gay male. His series of 21 essays is autobiographical, but not in the usual sense. He does tell of his first frightening homosexual encounter and later affairs, his experiences with poetry slams and book tours, being a gay Asian, life in the Castro district of San Francisco, and his love for pancakes. But he also discusses prostitution in Bangkok, malls in Singapore, the Western interest in Buddhism, the Mr. Asian contest, and other topics. A few essays are actually poems; others really are pranks. Chin has already published Bite Hard (Manic D, 1997) and numerous articles in anthologies and magazines. He usually speaks as a gay Asian but often stoops to skewering easily skewered topics (Graceland, beauty contests). When he is original, he is insightful. Recommended for gay studies collections. Kitty Chen Dean, Nassau Community Coll., Garden City, NY
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Ever wonder how someone copes with the pain of an anal fissure? Chin imagines three elves having "wild adventures" in his colon. In this ragtag collection of essays about being gay, being Asian-American, being an artist and every permutation thereof, Chin offers his take on such topics as delicate surgery, the importance of class, his Asian upbringing, San Francisco's Castro neighborhood, Thai sex clubs, his disenchantment with poetry slams and pretty much anything else that enters his mind. At his most flippant, Chin is downright charming. In a piece titled "Don't Ask Isadora, Ask Me," he advises: "never serve semen with fish or seafood." He's also engaging when he turns unexpectedly sentimental as he does in remembering his grandmother's meatballs. Even when Chin lapses into straight journalism, as in his description of the pay scales for boys in Bangkok sex clubs, the book is still endearing. The real tossers come when he tries to present himself as a social commentator. Would anyone who's so much as seen a picture of Marx be shocked to read that "Class is all around, and sometimes, we don't see until it is too late"? How surprising is it that "porn may be morally or politically good or bad depending on whom you ask"? Yet despite the occasional bland insight, Chin's eclecticism and voice make the book, like a poetry slam, an enjoyable, if transient, entertainment. (Feb.)
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