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The Rice Room : Growing Up Chinese-American from Number Two Son to Rock 'n' Roll
The Rice Room Growing Up ChineseAmerican from Number Two Son to Rock 'n' Roll Author:Ben Fong-Torres Ben Fong-Torres is a famed journalist and former pioneering radio rock deejay. He is also the son of immigrant Chinese who came to America under false names and raised five children in a land forever foreign to them. The Rice Room tells the story of his growing up with two brothers and two sisters in two worlds -- a Chinese world of close family... more » ties and suspicion of outsiders and the exploding West Coast scene of the '50s and '60s. It is a story of respect for our ancestors and worship of Elvis, of Chinese wedding feasts and hippie love fests, of going with 'suitable' girls and 'unsuitable' ones, of working in the rice rooms of restaurants and in the newsroom of Rolling Stone. But most of all, it is the story -- comic, tragic, and ultimately triumphant -- of parents and children separated by a sometimes aching gap, and of the love on both sides that bridged and transcended it.« less