i'm laughing because i'm crying by youngmi mayer

 this super-quick read took like two hours, which would be disappointing if i had paid $25 for it. but i liked this memoir's writing style more than the (few) others i've read, because although the prose is still clipped and abrupt-sounding, it's not too much so, and i think the author's constant referencing of previous points in the book helps to keep the reader going. i liked the parts that anthropologically criticized white people; i found it 'refreshing'. those same parts for korean people were well written and probably true but for obvious reasons i didn't find reading it vindicating.