Author, memoir
Raymond M. Wong is the author of I’m Not Chinese: The Journey from Resentment to Reverence, recently out from Apprentice House. Well over a decade on its path to publication, this heartfelt, humorous memoir begins, “The first thing you need to know is I’m not Chinese. My name is Raymond Wong and I stopped being Chinese at the age of five.” Of it, Peter Selgin (Confessions of a Left-Handed Man and Drowning Lessons) lauds, “Seldom have the terms ‘self-effacing’ and ‘memoir’ been more faithfully or sweetly conjoined. With his beguilingly humble voice Raymond Wong has shaped a moving, memorable book.” Adrian R. Magnuson (Taking Flight) calls it, “[A] journey both physical and figurative, a journey from refusal to understanding that sets [Ray’s] feet firmly in two worlds, American and Chinese.” Having earned the Eloise Klein Healy scholarship and the MFA in Creative Writing at Antioch University Los Angeles, Rays writing has appeared in USA Today, U-T San Diego, Chicken Soup for the Soul, San Diego Family, Small Print Magazine, Segue, and other publications. I’m Not Chinese is his first book.
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