My name is Raymond M. Wong.
In 1996 I was an outsider, alone and alienated in San Diego. The word "marriage" wasn't in my vocabulary and the thought of having children brought me to what can only be described as sheer, unadulterated panic. Then a trip to Hong Kong changed my world.
2015 SAN DIEGO BOOK AWARDS CO-WINNER IN "MEMOIR"
I'm Not Chinese: The Journey From
Resentment to Reverence
"The first thing you need to know is I’m not Chinese. My name is Raymond Wong
and I stopped being Chinese at the age of five."
Raymond Wong wants to forget his past: a conniving and controlling Chinese mother, a father who hasn’t so much as written him a letter in twenty-eight years, a stepfather who never sees him as a son, the pain of being an outcast in his own family . . .