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Fresh Off the Boat

A Memoir

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Fresh Off the Boat

By: Eddie Huang
Narrated by: Eddie Huang
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"Long before I met him, I was a fan of his writing, and his merciless wit. He’s bigger than food." (Anthony Bourdain)

Eddie Huang is the 30-year-old proprietor of Baohaus - the hot East Village hangout where foodies, stoners, and students come to stuff their faces with delicious Taiwanese street food late into the night - and one of the food world’s brightest and most controversial young stars. But before he created the perfect home for himself in a small patch of downtown New York, Eddie wandered the American wilderness looking for a place to call his own.

Eddie grew up in theme-park America, on a could-be-anywhere cul-de-sac in suburban Orlando, raised by a wild family of FOB ("fresh off the boat") hustlers and hysterics from Taiwan. While his father improbably launched a series of successful seafood and steak restaurants, Eddie burned his way through American culture, defying every "model minority" stereotype along the way. He obsessed over football, fought the all-American boys who called him a chink, partied like a gremlin, sold drugs with his crew, and idolized Tupac. His anchor through it all was food - from making Southern ribs with the Haitian cooks in his dad’s restaurant to preparing traditional meals in his mother’s kitchen to haunting the midnight markets of Taipei when he was shipped off to the homeland. After misadventures as an unlikely lawyer, street fashion renegade, and stand-up comic, Eddie finally threw everything he loved - past and present, family, and food - into his own restaurant, bringing together a legacy stretching back to China and the shards of global culture he’d melded into his own identity.

Funny, raw, and moving, and told in an irrepressibly alive and original voice, Fresh Off the Boat recasts the immigrant’s story for the 21st century. It’s a story of food, family, and the forging of a new notion of what it means to be American.

©2013 Eddie Huang (P)2013 Random House Audio
Culinary Emigration & Immigration Entertainment & Celebrities Professionals & Academics Social Sciences Memoir Celebrity China Funny Biography Nonfiction

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Critic reviews

"Mercilessly funny and provocative, Fresh Off the Boat is also a serious piece of work - and an important one. Eddie Huang is hunting nothing less than Big Game here - a question, a conversation, an argument: Who are we? If somebody’s going to put a thumb in your eye, it should probably be Eddie Huang. He does everything with style." (Anthony Bourdain)
"Brash, leading-edge, and unapologetically hip, Huang reconfigures the popular foodie memoir into something worthwhile and very memorable." ( Publishers Weekly)
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A great read. Eddie is a natural storyteller. He's inspired me to do my own thing too - not the safe choice but MY thing - just as Eddie did. He's funny and very brash and rude but we like him that way ("we" is my teenage son and I on our walk around the block, listening together). Eddie takes ZERO crap from anyone and that in itself is really inspiring. I wish I was like that. Ah no, I'm not too bad, getting better. He's a true American in the best sense even though he was very angry with America for all of his young life. Go Eddie!

Unmissable

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A real relatable story telling of Asian American identity - would highly recommended for all

must read

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The author blesses us with the story of his own life in his words with his voice.

Essential reading for anyone who has lived or is interested in the life of those who walk between worlds.

There are highs, so high, and the down low is dirty: raw; and challengingly real but the passions in Eddie's world draw you in through the darkest parts.

Food is a central theme, it is a metaphor and it is also the culture. The colourful descriptions bring flavour in to what should just be a story. Prepare to get hungry.

In his own words, Eddie's book is not THE voice of the ABC experience but it is a great voice and one that resonates with this BBC.

A relatable, inspirational tale for every banana!

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I absolutely loved this book, great story and it was only made better with Eddie's narration. It gave the book depth because it felt like he was telling me the story. Listened to this twice now and give it another year and I'd listen again. Very relatable with the hip hop references. A modern classic.

Awesome book, only made better with Eddie

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If you get the title then you’ll get the book.

I have read the physical book of this twice and listened to it twice. Lent the book out and it never came back.
It’s one of my favourite, actually no, it IS my favourite autobiography of all time.

For those who understand what it feels like to not fit in, to have big dreams and think the best use of a Sunday is blunts & buns on a Pete Rock & CL Smooth flex - this book is for you.

Strictly for astronauts, those who like multi-tasking and Ghostface

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