National Review Online, July 1, 2011
National Review Online (NRO) recommended Ying Ma’s Chinese Girl in the Ghetto for its “What to Read this Summer” Symposium.
NRO’s John Derbyshire wrote the following:
“For a Chinese memoir, read Chinese Girl in the Ghetto, by Ying Ma. Ying Ma was born in South China in the late 1970s, shortly after the death of Mao Tse-tung and the end of the Cultural Revolution. Her brief memoir is in two parts. The first deals with her Chinese childhood up to age eight or nine. Then she immigrates to America with her parents and settles in the Oakland ghetto. The second half of her book tells of her experiences as an Asian immigrant living among America’s urban poor. Though unremarkable in themselves, those experiences are told with a simplicity and frankness that make them stick in the mind. Ying Ma is particularly unsparing on the casual racism of ghetto blacks: a taboo topic in polite society, but common currency in the conversation of Chinese immigrants. The book’s strongest impression, though, is of the stoical toughness of the author and her family, a toughness constrained and civilized by the ancient humanist tradition of their homeland. Tigers indeed; but with the hearts and sensibilities of philosophers.”
Chinese Girl in the Ghetto is available on Amazon.com in paperback and for kindle.
Ying Ma 
Could you make it available for the B&N Nook?
Done. Please make your purchase here: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Chinese-Girl-in-the-Ghetto/Ying-Ma/e/2940013202191.
I should note that I firmly believe that Nook is inferior to Kindle, and that for all those things that count (e.g., customer service, speed of publication, helpfulness of user forums, etc.), Barnes and Noble is vastly inferior to Amazon as a publishing house. For that reason, I would strongly encourage all potential readers to purchase my book digitally for Kindle or as a paperback on Amazon. If, however, you have a strong preference for Nook, the book is now available there.
As an African-American who is a major in Asian American Studies, I am interested in reading this book since I am aware of the black on Asian racism that occurs in the inner city.
Thank you for making this available for the nook!
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