After the therapist finally rejects her increasingly desperate overtures, Hong leaves what she calls a “long screed” of a review on the website RateMyTherapist: “Koreans are repressed! Rigid! Cold! They should not be allowed to work in the mental health care profession!” At an appointment with a new therapist (this time Jewish), Hong spends most of the session retracing the traumas of her first. Where likeness might enable a more productive therapeutic relationship, Hong encounters only further animosity. Hong suspects it is because of their shared ethnicity. More specifically, it begins with two Korean American women-Hong and a potential new therapist-who fail to get on. Minor Feelings: An Asian American ReckoningĬathy Park Hong’s bracing new book, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning, begins with a similar anecdote about two Asian women in irreconcilable conflict.
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