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  • Rice Room

  • Growing Up Chinese-American from Number Two Son to Rock 'N' Roll
  • By: Ben Fong-Torres
  • Narrated by: Ben Fong-Torres
  • Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins

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By: Ben Fong-Torres
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Summary

One of America's best-known rock and entertainment journalists describes his journey from his childhood, cooped up in the "rice room" of his family's restaurant in Oakland's Chinatown, where he did chores, to the major role he played as a writer and editor at Rolling Stone. It is a story of teen worship of Elvis, but also of Chinese customs and the tragic murder of his brother, and of the '60s scene in San Francisco, where he found freedom - and his career.

©1994, 2011 Ben Fong-Torres (P)2021 Audible, Inc.
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