"In that greasy shop in the shadow of Disneyland, Lin saw the way customers either respected his father, his hero, or regarded him as “just an Asian immigrant, and they’d treat him like shit.” One night, a violent customer called Lin a “fucking Chink” and shattered the shop’s glass door with a punch—at a time when any repair was a precious expense. His father worked 364 days a year, taking only Thanksgiving off."