For as long as I can remember, the Asian-American identity had existed in various forms before I’d even known that being an ABC (American-born Chinese) was a thing. It was fed to me in drops and trickles: first through the works of Amy Tan, where I related strongly to her child protagonist Ying-ying St. Clair in the 1992 book The Moon Lady, the story of a headstrong and fairly obnoxious girl who …
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