Cool Book

Hello everyone! This isn't my April post, but I wanted to let you guys know about a cool book that I read for one of my English classes this semester that has a lot of relevance to many of our class discussions. It's called American Born Chinese; the author is Gene Yang. It's a graphic novel that won the Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in young adult literature, and it was also a finalist for the National Book Award. It tells three different stories simultaneously--one about a Chinese-American middle schooler, one about the Monkey king (taken from a Chinese fable), and another about a kid named Chin-Kee who embodies a lot of Chinese stereotypes. In my Contemporary American Fiction class, we talked about a lot of controversial issues in the book, specifically related to Chin-Kee. For anyone who is interested in some contemporary Asian American literature that's a fairly easy read yet also very thought-provoking, I encourage you to read it! Here is a link to the book on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/American-Born-Chinese-Gene-Luen/dp/1596433736/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207592677&sr=8-1.