Blues and Greens: A Produce Worker's Journal (Intersections: Asian and Pacific American Transcultural Studies, 5)

Blues and Greens: A Produce Worker's Journal (Intersections: Asian and Pacific American Transcultural Studies, 5) by Lau, Alan Chong. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780824823238.

Alan Chong Lau’s poetic memoir of his days as a produce worker in Seattle’s Chinatown reveals a microcosm of grassroots, working-class Asian America―a world where customers, workers, and fruits and vegetables intersect in exchanges that crackle with energy and brim over with humor. With the simple profundity of a Zen koan, the poems bear witness to people’s humanity. Lau portrays in words and pictures a community in constant flux as it moves to the push and pull of immigration. Blues and Greens has a lot to say about Asian Americans. What emerges is an acutely observed, nuanced critique of where Asian Americans―native-born, refugee, and migrant―are today.