Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis is a founding director of the Washington, DC-based arts nonprofit The Asian American Literary Review. He is a consultant with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center and adjunct faculty for the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Maryland. His fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction have appeared or will appear in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Gastronomica, AGNI online, and Fiction International, among other publications. Photograph by Mimi Khúc.

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Dispatch from the Floor of the Model Minority Factory

By LAWRENCE-MINH BùI DAVIS

“Hard work is a glue, and he worked longer hours than anybody I’d ever known, from doors opening to doors closing...”