On a reiterated offer as my latest
book enters its second year.
It is, I know, very poor form to
offer up one’s own book as a beach read recommendation. But on the other hand,
we write to be read—and as I’ve worked hard to move my writing and books more and
more into the kind of readable and engaging public scholarship category
about which I wrote in yesterday’s post, I hope that the most recent one in
particular, The
Chinese Exclusion Act: What It Can Teach Us About America (2013), would
not be out of place in your summer reading pile. And here at almost exactly the
one-year anniversary of that book’s publication, I wanted to reiterate an offer
I made back then: that I’m more than happy to send along a free e-copy of the
book to anyone who is interested (feel free to email me if you don’t want to
leave your email address in comments).
If you want to get more of a sense
of the book before requesting it, I’d direct you to two brief online pieces of
mine:
2) And
this
one, which highlights the tragic yet inspiring collection of poems that
connect to the histories of immigration, law, and identity at the heart of the
book.
Again, we write to be read, and
with this book in particular I have made it my central goal to share my writing
as widely and fully as possible (hence the year of book talks,
for example). So I’ll say it one more time—if you’re interested in bringing the
book to the beach, or the pool, or camping, or anywhere else, and you have the
ability to read online or on a device, please let me know and I’d be very happy
to email you an e-copy. Thanks!
Crowd-sourced post this weekend,
Ben
PS. So last chance ahead of the
weekend post: what would you recommend for a good beach read? What are you
hoping to get to by the pool this summer?
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