I saw this article about an American guy who falls in love with a woman from Saipan (haha…no comments, please 
), tries to make the relationship work, and when it doesn’t, writes a book about Americans and how love either fails or succeeds. The book is called, “Us: Americans Talk About Love,” and it’s a collection of first person accounts by real people who either loved or couldn’t find love. According to the article:
The book includes tales of obsession and confusion (from a 17-year-old girl in San Antonio, Tex., who can’t get over an ex-boyfriend and a drug-addled 30-year-old living with his mother in Arizona while following his ex on Facebook); finding bliss (as a 44-year-old lesbian eventually did in Minneapolis, after more than a decade of marriage to a born-again Christian); and acceptance (from a 76-year-old widower in Manhattan who says he dated more than 300 women after his wife died, without ever finding anyone to take her place).
It’s not a bad thing, but does anyone else find it curious that Asian Americans in the blogosphere often talk about Pick Up, or Flirting, or the IR Disparity, but few people talk about love? Jamie Ford’s “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet” was the first Asian American romance novel that I know of, and yet few people talk about the Asian romantic aspect of it. I would love to see an Asian American version of this book. Yes, the stories might be hard to come by, but I’m sure they’re out there.
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I once blogged (on Kimchi Mamas) about not having heard “I love you” as I was growing up and that “I love you” to my daughter in English came to me naturally yet the Korean version (Sarang-hay) didn’t.
I talk about love. A lot. Maybe too much.
(my RECAPTCHA words were: firming our)
I think you’re reading the wrong blogs!
I know this is TOTALLY unrelated to anything but a black woman won Ms America last night. My redneck next door neighbor sounded like she’d had a heart attack. Bet she was watching!
Best of all, the new Ms America is not some “light, bright, damn near white” kind of “black” person, she actually looks black. Yes, the times, they are a changin’.
Sorry to interrupt folks, I just had to vent.
Haha…interesting stuff.
N.O., I checked out google for a story about the new Miss America. Wow. In addition to being a black woman, I also liked what she had to say about kids and childhood obesity–the kids had to turn off the TV and play outside.
Cool. I haven’t watched the Miss America Pageant in years, but I better go and have a look now. Thanks N.O.