Instant New York Times Bestseller ""Hip, entertaining...imaginative.""-Kirkus, starred review * ""Essential."" -Min Jin Lee ""A Herculean effort.""-Lisa Ling ""A must-read.""-Ijeoma Oluo ""Get two copies.""-Shea Serrano ""A book we've needed for ages."" -Celeste Ng ""Accessible, informative, and fun."" -Cathy Park Hong ""This book has serious substance...Also, I'm in it.""-Ronny ChiengRISE is a love letter to and for Asian Americans-a vivid scrapbook of voices, emotions, and memories from an era in which our culture was forged and transformed, and a way to preserve both the headlines and the intimate conversations that have shaped our community into who we are today. When the Hart-Celler Act passed in 1965, opening up Us immigration to non-Europeans, it ushered in a whole new era. But even to the first generation of Asian Americans born in the Us after that milestone, it would have been impossible to imagine that sushi and boba would one day be beloved by all, that a Korean boy band named Bts would be the biggest musical act in the world, that one of the most acclaimed and popular movies of 2018 would be Crazy Rich Asians, or that we would have an Asian American Vice President.