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An award-winning writer takes a groundbreaking look at the experience and psyche of the Asian American male.

&8;&8; Alex Tizon landed in an America that saw Asian women as sexy and Asian men as sexless. Immigrating from the Philippines as a young boy, everything he saw and heard taught him to be ashamed of his face, his skin color, his height.

&8;His fierce and funny observations of sex and the Asian American male include his own quest for love during college in the 1980s, a tortured tutorial on stereotypes that still make it hard for Asian men to get the girl. Tizon writes: "I had to educate myself on my own worth. It was a sloppy, piecemeal education, but I had to do it because no one else was going to do it for me."

&8;And then, a transformation. First, Tizon&;s growing understanding that shame is universal: that his own just happened to be about race. Next, seismic cultural changes &; from Jerry Yang&;s phenomenal success with Yahoo! Inc., to actor Ken Watanabe&;s emergence in Hollywood blockbusters, to Jeremy Lin&;s meteoric NBA rise.