'Sigh, gone' - growing up as Vietnamese punk rocker in the U.S.

"In my punk crew, in which we wore out outsider status proudly, I had to admit to myself: I didn't actually want to be an outsider anymore... I wanted to feel like a valued member of my school and my town, even as I rejected my town and my school (punk rock, you're so confusing)" - Phuc Tran writes in his new book 'Sigh, gone', about growing up in small-town America as "the Asian guy" in school. Punk rock offered consolation, but not answers - "the most punk thing for me to do was to be who I was without pretension or preamble or grandiose posturing. I had read it in Nietzsche but didn't know what it really meant: become who you are". Now, besides writing, Phuc inks tattoos and rides motorcycles. PopMatters describes the book as a "smart, tough memoir" that entices reading. Pulitzer-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen says it's "bold" and "funny".