Capacious in its scope and its conclusions alike, Model Minority Masochism is a critical yet passionate rumination on Asian American masculinity and cultural politics at large. By tethering model minorityness to masochism, Rivera's book builds on a strain of Asian Americanist critique that treats the model minority not as a myth, but a mode of subject formation and structure of feeling. In a moment of renewed attention to the model minority - and many calls to cast it off as a racist fiction - Model Minority Masochism advances a vital intervention, attending to its nuances as well as its limitations.