A furious, joyful memoir of working-class New Jersey and the writing life
A memoir that celebrates as much as it grieves, rages and broods, Jane Wong鈥檚 鈥溾 charts its author鈥檚 progress from the casinos of New Jersey to the college dorms of Upstate New York, to Hong Kong and Iowa and finally Bellingham, Wash., where she now teaches creative writing at Western Washington University.