具体描述
“Long before I met him, I was a fan of his writing, and his merciless wit. He’s bigger than food.”—Anthony Bourdain
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Eddie Huang is the thirty-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 twenty-first century. It’s a story of food, family, and the forging of a new notion of what it means to be American.
Praise for Fresh Off the Boat
“Brash and funny . . . outrageous, courageous, moving, ironic and true.” — New York Times Book Review
“Bawdy and frequently hilarious . . . a surprisingly sophisticated memoir about race and assimilation in America . . . as much James Baldwin and Jay-Z as Amy Tan . . . rowdy [and] vital . . . It’s a book about fitting in by not fitting in at all.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times
“Uproariously funny . . . emotionally honest.” — Chicago Tribune
“Huang is a fearless raconteur. [His] writing is at once hilarious and provocative; his incisive wit pulls through like a perfect plate of dan dan noodles.” — Interview
“Although writing a memoir is an audacious act for a thirty-year-old, it is not nearly as audacious as some of the things Huang did and survived even earlier. . . . Whatever he ends up doing, you can be sure it won’t look or sound like anything that’s come before. A single, kinetic passage from Fresh Off the Boat . . . is all you need to get that straight.” —Bookforum
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Just to be honest, based on the title, it’s a zero star book. I wouldn’t pick a book called ‘fresh off the boat’ simply because 1. The title is overwhelmingly racist. 2. Asian literature is nothing but Asian stereotype, I’d prefer Asian writer to writ...
评分Talking about things I don't like: too much cursing; how he plays the ball around the edges of what's legal/ right and walk away from it; how he brushes off stupid things he's done in the past as good stories and not drawing lessons from them; how he prese...
评分 评分Just to be honest, based on the title, it’s a zero star book. I wouldn’t pick a book called ‘fresh off the boat’ simply because 1. The title is overwhelmingly racist. 2. Asian literature is nothing but Asian stereotype, I’d prefer Asian writer to writ...
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说实话，我本来以为这又是一本会让我感到压抑的纪实文学，毕竟探讨身份认同的题材往往带着一丝挥之不去的忧郁基调。然而，这本书的结尾处理得非常高明。它没有提供一个虚假的“大团圆”，而是呈现了一种动态的、持续成长的状态。作者似乎在告诉我们：身份的构建是一个永无止境的过程，接纳矛盾本身就是一种胜利。书中对环境描写的功力也值得称赞，无论是童年时期的那个充满异域风情的街区，还是后来在精英教育体系中的格格不入，场景的切换都伴随着强烈的感官体验，让人仿佛身临其境。我特别喜欢作者对“语言”的运用，他如何在外语中寻找立足点，又如何用母语来安放灵魂的角落，这种对语言边界的探索，本身就是一种文学上的冒险。这本书的阅读体验，就像是爬上了一座高山，虽然过程艰辛，但登顶后看到的风景，开阔且令人心胸舒畅。
评分这本书的叙事弧线设计得非常具有文学性，它拒绝平铺直叙，更倾向于在关键的转折点上进行深入的回溯和前瞻性的思考。我特别欣赏作者对于“非线性叙事”的驾驭能力，他能让一个看似无关紧要的童年轶事，在多年后突然爆发出巨大的象征意义，这种结构上的精妙布局，足见作者的深思熟虑。它不仅仅记录了“发生了什么”，更重要的是，它探讨了“这些事情如何塑造了今天的我”。在关于事业与家庭责任的权衡部分，作者的处理方式非常成熟和克制，没有抱怨，只有对现实的接受和积极的再定义。这种对复杂人性的洞察，使得这本书超越了一般的自传范畴，具有了深刻的哲学意味。读罢全书，我获得的不仅是故事，更像是一种思考人生的新视角。这本书的价值在于，它提供了一种高品质的、充满思辨性的阅读体验，足以让人在合上封面的很久之后，依然能感受到文字的余温和思想的冲击力。
评分这本书的节奏感把握得极好，那种时而急促、时而舒缓的张力，完全抓住了读者的注意力。我必须得说，它的结构设计得非常巧妙，并非简单的时间线索，而是像一个迷宫，不断地带领读者探索主人公内心深处那些未被言说的角落。特别是关于职业选择和自我实现的那一部分，作者坦诚地展示了成功光环背后的迷茫与自我怀疑。他没有给我们提供一个标准答案，而是展示了“选择”本身所带来的重量。我发现自己常常代入其中，思考自己人生中的那些重大决定，那种“如果当初……”的无力感和对现状的审视交织在一起。作者的幽默感也恰到好处，总能在沉重的话题中抖出一个精准的包袱，让气氛得以缓解，但这种幽默绝不是廉价的，它源于对生活荒诞性的深刻洞察。整本书读下来，感觉就像经历了一场漫长而深刻的对话，作者既是倾诉者，也是一个优秀的引导者，他让你想去了解更深层的世界，同时也让你更诚实地面对自己。
评分天呐，最近终于读完了那本传说中的传记，虽然名字我得记着点，但它给我的震撼绝对是实打实的。这本书的叙事手法简直像一部精心编排的电影，每一个转折都出乎意料，却又在回味时觉得无比自然。作者没有回避任何艰难时刻，那些关于身份认同的挣扎、在两种文化夹缝中生存的焦虑，都被描绘得入木三分。我尤其欣赏作者处理家庭关系的方式，那种既依赖又疏离的复杂情感，让我这个旁观者都感同身受。书里有大量关于童年记忆的碎片，它们像散落的宝石，被作者用一种近乎诗意的语言串联起来，虽然讲述的是他个人的经历，但其中蕴含的关于“归属感”的探讨，绝对具有跨越文化和时代的普适性。读到某些段落时，我甚至会停下来，反复琢磨作者选择的那个动词或形容词，那种精准度和力度，让人叹服。它不是那种只停留在表面讲述“我如何成功”的励志故事，而是深入骨髓地剖析了一个移民家庭如何在新的土壤上扎根，以及这种扎根过程中必须付出的代价。这本书的文字功底，可以说是近十年来我读过的非虚构作品中最顶尖的之一，它没有故作高深，却充满了智慧的火花。
评分我向来对那些试图解释“我是谁”的作品抱持着一种审慎的态度，因为很多时候，这种解释往往流于表面或陷入自我中心的泥沼。但这本书完全不同。它的力量在于其彻底的真诚和不加粉饰的细节呈现。作者在描述他与父辈之间的文化冲突时，那种微妙的、日常的摩擦被捕捉得无比生动，比如餐桌上的沉默、对不同价值观的无言抗拒。这些细节堆砌起来，构成了一个无比真实且动人的家庭肖像。我想，很多有着相似背景的读者，会在那些细枝末节中看到自己的影子。更令人称道的是，作者成功地将宏大的社会议题——比如文化融合、身份政治——巧妙地融入到私人叙事中，两者互相支撑，互为佐证，使得整本书既有私人情感的温度，又有社会评论的深度。读完之后，我感觉自己对那个特定群体乃至整个移民体验的理解，都有了质的飞跃，不再是基于新闻报道的刻板印象，而是建立在鲜活的个体经验之上。
评分一种文化的蜕变和一种文化的衍生
评分"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone."
评分终于在英语书里看到其他语言明白是什么了，（上本讲伊斯兰的根本记不住拼写）。推荐想读英文原著又怕读不下去的就用这种熟悉的题材下手吧。电视剧看了三集就弃了准备补。
评分看了电视再看到书，Eddie真是个酷酷的胖子。但是鼎泰丰真的不好吃啊！
评分跟电视剧非常的不同。Eddie Huang的人生真的完全不能复制。一个taiwanese american用的是拼音我也是醉了..
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