Book jacket image for Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City by Jane Wong

Tin House

9781953534675

STARRED REVIEW

Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City

Poet Jane Wong’s experimental memoir is dense with beautiful sensory images about coming of age in Atlantic City and contending with her father’s gambling addiction.

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Review of ‘Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City’

In her debut memoir in essays, Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City, poet Jane Wong offers a nonlinear narrative of her life and her family’s lives. Her parents emigrated from China in the 1980s, when they were in their early 20s, and settled on the Jersey Shore to run a Chinese restaurant. “This is the…

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