Aliens in America, Sandra Tsing Loh
Aliens in America, Sandra Tsing Loh
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Aliens in America

Author: Sandra Tsing Loh

Narrator: Sandra Tsing Loh

Unabridged: 1 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/24/2000


Synopsis

Contemporary satirist Sandra Tsing Loh spins a darkly comic, autobiographical tale of growing up middle class Chinese-German in Southern California. This witty monologue is for sons and daughters everywhere who feel that their parents must have been beamed to earth from another planet.

An L.A. Theatre Works performance featuring Sandra Tsing Loh.

About Sandra Tsing Loh

Sandra Tsing Loh is a writer and performer. Her work has been heard on NPR's Morning Edition and This American Life. She is a contributing editor to the Atlantic and hosts the daily podcast The Loh Down on Science. Her book The Madwoman and the Volvo was a New York Times Notable Book of 2014. Loh lives in Pasadena, California.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ann G.

With a tall, pleasure loving German mother, a short, pennypinching Chinese father, and a personal tendency toward nerdiness, it's no wonder that Sandra Tsing Loh describes herself and her parents as aliens in America. These short vignettes of family life are painfully funny, touching, and completely......more

Goodreads review by Tami

Aliens In America by Sandra Tsing Loh is a comical look at a three-dimensional culture clash. Loh's German mother is often trying to leave her past behind and move forward in an American culture that allows for much freedom, while Loh's Chinese father is always pinching pennies to the nth degree in......more

Goodreads review by Becki

Very short audiobook standup comic routine basically. This is from a woman who has a Chinese father and a German mother who grew up in the United States. To say she has an interesting point of view is an understatement and it is not surprising st all that she became a comedian. Highly recommend!......more

Goodreads review by Lori

This performance audiobook was too funny! I really enjoyed it.......more

The story was bland and mildly amusing at times but overall was not very well written. What was supposed to be meant as a joke to her heritage I thought was pointless.......more