Alex Tizon is, after all, my big brother. Next, seismic cultural changes – from Jerry Yang’s phenomenal success with Yahoo! Inc., to actor Ken Watanabe’s emergence in Hollywood blockbusters, to Jeremy Lin’s meteoric NBA rise.įinally, Tizon’s deeply original, taboo-bending investigation turns outward, tracking the unheard stories of young Asian men today, in a landscape still complex but much changed for the Asian American man.moreįull Disclosure: I requested an advanced copy of Big Little Man from NetGalley thinking I could write an unbiased review. First, Tizon’s growing understanding that shame is universal: that his own just happened to be about race. It was a sloppy, piecemeal education, but I had to do it because no one else was going to do it for me.'Īnd then, a transformation. Tizon writes: 'I had to educate myself on my own worth. His fierce and funny observations of sex and the Asian American male include his own quest for love during college in the 1980s, a tortured tutorial on stereotypes that still make it hard for Asian men to get the girl. Immigrating from the Philippines as a young boy, everything he saw and heard taught him to be ashamed of his face, his skin color, his height. His fierce and funny observations of An award-winning writer takes a groundbreaking look at the experience and psyche of the Asian American male.Īlex Tizon landed in an America that saw Asian women as sexy and Asian men as sexless. Alex Tizon landed in an America that saw Asian women as sexy and Asian men as sexless.

An award-winning writer takes a groundbreaking look at the experience and psyche of the Asian American male.

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