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Four Asian actors are pictured in a dining-room set. An older man is seated left, with an older woman standing directly across from him. She is flanked by a younger man on the left and a younger woman on the right.

Pecking themselves to death

by Irene Hsiao October 12, 2022October 12, 2022

Albert Chen (Christopher Thomas Pow) is sitting on a park bench eating what appears to be a burrito or a hot pocket when a hunched old man, dressed in an intersection of athleisure and preppie that signals respectability, comfort, and a baseline certainty of invisibility, shuffles in. “Hey! You Chinese?” he hollers. Albert, though he […]