{"id":1147,"date":"2009-03-13T02:22:50","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T06:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=1147"},"modified":"2018-05-04T16:53:53","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T20:53:53","slug":"the-eternal-smile-by-gene-luen-yang-and-derek-kirk-kim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-eternal-smile-by-gene-luen-yang-and-derek-kirk-kim\/","title":{"rendered":"The Eternal Smile by Gene Luen Yang and Derek Kirk Kim [in Bloomsbury Review]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-29830\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2009\/03\/Eternal-Smile-580x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2009\/03\/Eternal-Smile-580x800.jpg 580w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2009\/03\/Eternal-Smile-800x1102.jpg 800w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2009\/03\/Eternal-Smile.jpg 1161w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/>From two of the most successful names in contemporary graphic novels \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humblecomics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Gene Luen Yang<\/a>, whose multi-award-winning\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/2007\/01\/01\/american-born-chinese-by-gene-luen-yang-author-interview\/\">American Born Chinese<\/a><\/em>\u00a0was the first-ever graphic novel to be a finalist for the National Book Award, and <a href=\"http:\/\/derekkirkkim.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Derek Kirk Kim<\/a>, the equally multi-award-winning author of groundbreaking <em><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/2004\/07\/01\/same-difference-and-other-stories-by-derek-kirk-kim\/\">Same Difference and Other Stories<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2013 comes an entertaining joint venture that&#8217;s actually three stories in one. Being who they are, expect the unexpected, of course!<\/p>\n<p>In &#8220;Duncan&#8217;s Kingdom,&#8221; a young knight fights all sorts of evil characters and is just about to get the gorgeous Princess when reality, uh, interrupts his good fortune. Hey .. isn&#8217;t that Gordon Yamamoto\u00a0(from Yang&#8217;s 2004 <em>Gordon Yamamoto and the King of the Geeks<\/em>)\u00a0hanging out with the common masses on page 35?<\/p>\n<p>The second story, &#8220;Gran&#8217;pa Greenbax and the Eternal Smile&#8221; is all about greed &#8230; and using religion to be even greedier and therefore wealthier! Ultra-evangelical Colorado Springs come to mind? But the Church of the Eternal Smile is not at all what it seems.<\/p>\n<p>And in the third and final &#8220;Urgent Request,&#8221; overlooked office drone Janet Oh \u2013\u00a0hoping to meet her Nigerian prince who&#8217;s suspiciously named Henry (?!!) \u2013\u00a0actually answers that scam mail about a family fortune needing to be dispersed pronto &#8230; does she know something we don&#8217;t?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/tbr-2009-05-06-apa-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;In Celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month: New &amp; Notable Books,&#8221; <em>The Bloomsbury Review<\/em>, May\/June 2009<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult, Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2009<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From two of the most successful names in contemporary graphic novels \u2013 Gene Luen Yang, whose multi-award-winning\u00a0American Born Chinese\u00a0was the first-ever graphic novel to be a finalist for the National Book Award, and Derek Kirk Kim, the equally multi-award-winning author of groundbreaking Same Difference and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,21,6,73,38,60,6535,31],"tags":[32,1968,6608,865,2404,10,477,51,13,39,571],"class_list":["post-1147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-chinese-american","category-fiction","category-graphic-novel-manga-manwha","category-korean-american","category-nonethnic-specific","category-repost","category-young-adult-readers","tag-adventure","tag-bloomsbury-review","tag-bookdragon","tag-derek-kirk-kim","tag-eternal-smile","tag-family","tag-gene-luen-yang","tag-identity","tag-love","tag-parent-child-relationship","tag-personal-transformation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - 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