The Dragon’s Child: A Story of Angel Island by Laurence Yep with Dr. Kathleen S. Yep [in Bloomsbury Review]
01 May, by in Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Young Adult Readers
Based on more than 80-year-old actual immigration interviews, Laurence Yep imagines the conversation he never had with his father about his father’s experiences as a nervous young boy who arrived on Angel Island, the West Coast...
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