{"product_id":"9781324066378","title":"Take My Name But Say It Slow: Essays","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eA luminous memoir-in-essays exploring place, identity, and what it means to grow up queer and Asian in the American South.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003eThomas Dai has never gone by his Chinese name, Nuocheng, fashioned from the Knoxville (Chinese: Nuokeshiweier) of his childhood and the Chengdu his mother called home. Seen another way, Nuocheng also contains the cheng of Chenggong: success. In one breath, his name speaks of a hometown, a geography, a half-baked promise to succeed. For Dai, every name is like a map, and every map can define identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eTake My Name but Say It Slow\u003c\/em\u003e, Dai writes of a river that runs only in the mind and a queer map housed on the internet; of love carved on the rocks of Taipei and Arizona; of pounding the racetrack in Wenzhou, watching his grandfather fade from the world. He recounts a relationship that would literally go the distance from the American Southwest to China and back again, and a road trip chasing the memory of Nabokov, the writer and lepidopterist. As he reflects on the paths his parents took to build a life in America, he also asks what it means to “return” to a place he never felt he could claim as his own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncisive and gorgeously written, \u003cem\u003eTake My Name but Say It Slow\u003c\/em\u003e offers a fresh perspective on placelessness, yearning, and belonging, and introduces a sparkling new literary talent.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Norton, W. W. \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42370795831357,"sku":"9781324066378","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781324066378_p0.jpg?v=1771567923","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9781324066378","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}