{"id":49414,"date":"2022-06-01T11:12:40","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T15:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=49414"},"modified":"2022-05-26T12:51:14","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T16:51:14","slug":"the-good-asian-vol-2-by-pornsak-pichetshote-illustrated-by-alexandre-tefenkgi-colored-by-lee-loughridge-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-good-asian-vol-2-by-pornsak-pichetshote-illustrated-by-alexandre-tefenkgi-colored-by-lee-loughridge-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Good Asian (vol. 2) by Pornsak Pichetshote, illustrated by Alexandre Tefenkgi, colored by Lee Loughridge [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-49423\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/05\/Good-Asian-Pornak-Pichetshote-BookDragon-520x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/05\/Good-Asian-Pornak-Pichetshote-BookDragon-520x800.jpg 520w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/05\/Good-Asian-Pornak-Pichetshote-BookDragon.jpg 659w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><strong>*STARRED REVIEW<\/strong><br \/>\nTo best appreciate this volume, readers <em>must\u00a0<\/em>go back to the first book. Pornsak Pichetshote\u2019s exquisite narration is an intricate temporal puzzle, his scenes moving between past and present, revealing just enough partial (scintillating, shocking, shrewd) backstory each time with many threads that require careful unraveling. And rather miraculously, he seamlessly weaves in decades of Asian American history, so much of it racist, violent, ugly; too much of it resonating now with ongoing spikes in anti-Asian hate crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Edison Hark, one of Hawaii\u2019s few Asian American police officers, is still in San Francisco, having been summoned back in the first book in the series to his childhood home by the Carroway siblings, with whom he was raised. Millionaire patriarch Mason Carroway became Edison\u2019s surrogate father after Edison\u2019s mother, a beloved Carroway employee, was murdered. Mason still lies in a coma allegedly caused by the disappearance of Ivy Chen, the family maid with whom Mason was besotted. Edison must navigate insular Chinatown to find her \u2013 but then the bodies start falling.<\/p>\n<p>Pichetshote (<em>Infidel<\/em>), who is Thai American, finds a perfect partner in crime in Alexandre Tefenkgi (<em>Outpost Zero<\/em>), a French artist who\u2019s been exploring his own recently discovered Vietnamese heritage. Tefengki\u2019s art, awash in gorgeous full colors with especially vivid bloody reds, is a stupendous realization of Pichetshote\u2019s unforgettable storytelling.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/The-Good-Asian-v-2-\/pid=9762637\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;Graphic Novels,&#8221; <em>Booklist<\/em>, May 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*STARRED REVIEW To best appreciate this volume, readers must\u00a0go back to the first book. 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