Carrie Chang 
Erstwhile Bubble-Tea 

“Erstwhile Bubble Tea” is 100 percent pure moonshine, a literary topis of strange beliefs and occasional bliss, a humanitarian account of how the sunshine tribe triumphed over darkness and the little cities of the Bay Area celebrated their second shadow; while drinking tea becomes an erstwhile pleasure for the taking, the cool cat Asians of suburban California put to rights their value to conquer the vicissitudes of plainspoken time and outrageous happenstance; whether they are putting on airs, or exhibiting the sur le tat neuroses of a resurrected childhood on a summer’s day, these characters lead a charmed existence, putting on a show not unlike “Juneteenth, ” and making a statement for their ethnic pageantry, and cosmic FOB existence on the planet.