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BookDragon Shing Yin Khor Tag

The Legend of Auntie Po by Shing Yin Khor [in Shelf Awareness]

04 Jul, by SIBookDragon in Chinese American, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Singaporean American

The year is 1885 and Mei and her father, Ah Hao, work in a Sierra Nevada logging camp in this mesmerizing middle-grade debut by author/illustrator Shing Yin Khor (The American Dream?). The first few pages of Khor's clever graphic novel delineates underlying racial disparities: "Every night,...

Five More to Go: Shing Yin Khor’s The American Dream? [in The Booklist Reader]

22 Jul, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Egyptian American, Fiction, Filipina/o American, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Hapa/Mixed-race, Jewish, Latina/o/x, Lists, Malaysian American, Memoir, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, Repost, Southeast Asian American, Young Adult Readers

The American Dream? A Journey on Route 66 Discovering Dinosaur Statues, Muffler Men, and the Perfect Breakfast Burrito by Shing Yin Khor Malaysia-born, LA-dwelling Shing Yin Khor introduces the “two Americas” that were their obsessions growing up: a Los Angeles “full of beautiful people and sunlight and...

The American Dream? A Journey on Route 66 Discovering Dinosaur Statues, Muffler Men, and the Perfect Breakfast Burrito by Shing Yin Khor [in Booklist]

15 Jul, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Malaysian American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Southeast Asian American, Young Adult Readers

*STARRED REVIEW Malaysia-born, LA-dwelling Shing Yin Khor introduces the “two Americas” that were their obsessions growing up: a Los Angeles “full of beautiful people and sunlight and open roads” where 10 years of living has also added “lots and lots and lots of traffic,” and a...

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