Columbia Documentary History of the Asian American Experience by Franklin Odo + Author Interview [in AsianWeek]
17 Jan, by in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Nonfiction, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Repost, Young Adult Readers
History in the Making
Franklin Odo is not one to rest on his laurels. As a man of many firsts – first from his Hawai‘i high school to get into Princeton, first Asian Pacific American to...
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