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Sukrungruang, Ira
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Ira Sukrungruang has published fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in numerous periodicals, and co-edited What Are You Looking At? The First Fat Fiction Anthology and Scoot Over, Skinny: The Fat Nonfiction Anthology. He is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of South Florida and lives in Brandon with his wife and three dogs.
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Born into a newly arrived Thai immigrant family in a Chicago suburb in 1968, Ira tries to be white and normal, and his memoir, hilarious and painful, captures the universal appeal of the immigrant story of a kid desperate to fit in, but it also gives readers the vivid particulars about morphing from a comic-book nerd to an overweight but love-hungry romantic—but one who, true to his nerdy roots, watches porn videos with his equally nerdy friends, white and Thai. Like the titles listed in the Booklist core-collection feature “The New Immigration Story” (August 2005), this memoir dramatizes contemporary conflicts about becoming American. The locals do not want Ira’s family in their neighborhood because his parents will not assimilate. But Ira learns not to bring smelly, garlicky food to school. The personal narrative speaks with wry, heart-aching detail: the young teen gets the American idiom, including the F-word, “so simple, it was Buddhist.” He knows he could be one of them, if only he wasn’t so fat. --Hazel Rochman
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