Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant: A Memoir Poetry (see also Stories in Verse) he's desperate not to be

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Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant: A Memoir Poetry (see also Stories in Verse) he's desperate not to beThis "vivid, moving, funny, and heartfelt" memoir tells the story of Curtis Chin's time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980's Detroit (Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers). Nineteen eighties Detroit was a volatile place to live, but above the fray stood a safe haven: Chung's Cantonese Cuisine, where anyone from the city's first Black mayor to the local drag queens, from a big time Hollywood star to elderly Jewish couples could sit down for a