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Author Koy, Jo, author.

Title Mixed plate : chronicles of an All-American combo / Jo Koy.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow, [2021]

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Location Call No. Status
 Enfield, Main Library - Biographies  B KOY    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - NEW Adult Biography  B-KOY KOY    Missing
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  92 KOY, JO    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  B KOY    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  BIOG KOY, JO    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Biographies  BIOG KOY, JO    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xii, 304 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Contents The American way -- My great escape -- This crazy thing called divorce -- "I was right. You should've died." -- Fred and titty baby -- Looking for gold -- The first laugh -- Live from the hustle -- King no more -- The tiny game-changer -- You're the fucking man -- Immigrant revolution.
Summary "Well guys, here it is -- my story. A funny, sad, at times pathetic but also kick-ass tale of how a half-Filipino, half-white kid whose mom thought (and still thinks) his career goal was to become a clown became a success. Not an overnight success, because that would have made for a really short read, but an All-American success who could give my immigrant mom the kind of life she hoped for when she came to this country, and my son the kind of life I wished I'd had as a kid. With all the details of what it felt like to get the doors closed in my face, to grind it out on the road with my arsenal of dick jokes, and how my career finally took off once I embraced the craziness of my family, which I always thought was uniquely Filipino but turns out is as universal as it gets." -- Publisher annotation
Note Illustrated with 25-35 personal photos.
Subject Koy, Jo.
Comedians -- United States -- Biography.
Filipino Americans -- Biography.
Comedians. (OCoLC)fst00869077
Filipino Americans. (OCoLC)fst00924194
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
ISBN 9780062969965 (hardback)
006296996X (hardback)
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