Cook Memorial Library

• [[bookjacket|]]

• Title

  • American Born Chinese

• Attribution

  Gene Luen Yang ; color by Lark Pien

• Format

  Book

• Published

  2006

• Availability

  [[availability|tl34696000283866]]

• Call Number

  • YA 741.5 Yan

• links

  • loc.gov

• Description and Reviews

  Indie graphic novelist Gene Yang's intelligent and emotionally challenging American Born Chinese is made up of three individual plotlines: the determined efforts of the Chinese folk hero Monkey King to shed his humble roots and be revered as a god; Each story works well on its own, but Yang engineers a clever convergence of these parallel tales into a powerful climax that destroys the hateful stereotype of Chin-Kee, while leaving both Jin Wang and the Monkey King satisfied and happy to be who they are. summarized from Amazon.com [[reviews|asin=]]

• Authors

  • Yang, Gene Luen.
  • Pien, Lark,

• Subject

  • Chinese Americans — Juvenile fiction
  • Chinese Americans — Fiction
  • Identity — Fiction
  • Schools — Fiction
  • Cartoons and comics

• Notes

  • Alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in the popular culture. Presented in comic book format.

• ISBN

  • 1596431520

• LCCN

  • 2005058105

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