Review first posted on jenasbookreviews.blogspot.com Three seemingly unrelated tales interwoven until they all wrap up together at the end. You have the Monkey King who has trained and studied to be accepted into Heaven with the other Gods but is shut out Gene Luen Yang American Born Chinese is a story that has three different parts/characters/stories within itself, and the cool part about this story is that eventually they all intersect into one (in the end). Everything makes perfect since at the very end of the compelling tale, with such Gene Luen Yang I love this graphic novel! And as some other reviewers have noted, it goes a long way in disproving the notion that comics and graphics novels don't count as real literature. Gene Luen Yang, deftly tackles issues of racism, cultural and national identity, identity Gene Luen Yang
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Gene Luen Yang was the fifth the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature and is a MacArthur Fellow, a recipient of what's popularly known as the MacArthur Genius Grant.
A tour de force by New York Times bestselling graphic novelist Gene Yang, American Born Chinese tells the story of three apparently unrelated characters: Jin Wang, who moves to a new neighborhood with his family only to discover that he's the only Chinese American student at his new school; the powerful Monkey King, subject of one of the oldest and greatest Chinese fables; and Chin Kee, a personification of the ultimate negative Chinese stereotype, who is ruining his cousin Danny's life with his yearly visits. Their lives and stories come together with an unexpected twist in this action packed modern fable. American Born Chinese is an amazing ride, all the way up to the astonishing climax.
American Born Chinese is the winner of the 2007 Michael L. Printz Award, a 2006 National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature, the winner of the 2007 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: New, an Eisner Award nominee for Best Coloring, a 2007 Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year, and a New York Times bestseller.
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Good read for your children. Gene Luen Yang “I do not make mistakes, little monkey. A monkey I intend you to be. A monkey you are,” said by the god Tze Yo Tzuh in the book American Born Chinese. This line stuck with me for the entire book as it seems to express Gene Luen Yang’s message well. Yang does a very good job Gene Luen Yang I happened across this book because it was recommended as an example of a good graphic novel in a MOOC from Coursera that focused on the graphic novel medium. The premise seemed interesting and I liked the idea of reading something that was outside of the realm of costumed Gene Luen Yang I remember fondly the last Chinese American colleague of my military career. She was my supervisor: a very kind, patient, conscientious, hardworking, and highly competent person. It was she who explained to me the difference between American Born Chinese (ABC), and Chinese Gene Luen Yang I am an ABC (American Born Chinese), I am also a comic book enthusiastic (I find graphic novel a bit pretentious actually). In a nutshell, while I applaud the author's intent and acknowledge the uniqueness of his work one of the only graphic novels whose purpose is to Gene Luen Yang