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Ryan Lee Wong

Biography

Ryan Lee Wong

Ryan Lee Wong was born and raised in Los Angeles, lived for two years at Ancestral Heart Zen Temple, and currently lives in Brooklyn, where he is the administrative director of Brooklyn Zen Center. Previously, he served as program director for the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and managing director of Kundiman. He has organized exhibitions and written extensively on the Asian American movements of the 1970s. He holds an MFA in fiction from Rutgers University–Newark. WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON is his first book.

Ryan Lee Wong

Books by Ryan Lee Wong

Which Side Are You On
by Ryan Lee Wong - Fiction

Twenty-one-year-old Reed is fed up. Angry about the killing of a Black man by an Asian American NYPD officer, he wants to drop out of college and devote himself to the Black Lives Matter movement. But would that truly bring him closer to the moral life he seeks? In a series of intimate, charged conversations, his mother --- once the leader of a Korean-Black coalition --- demands that he rethink his outrage and, along with it, what it means to be an organizer, a student, an ally, an American and a son. As Reed zips around his hometown of Los Angeles with his mother, searching and questioning, he faces a revelation that will change everything.