{"id":6351,"date":"2001-08-01T12:30:34","date_gmt":"2001-08-01T16:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=6351"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:38:47","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:38:47","slug":"the-amah-and-angelfish-by-laurence-yep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-amah-and-angelfish-by-laurence-yep\/","title":{"rendered":"The Amah and Angelfish by Laurence Yep [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2001\/08\/Amah-and-Angelfish.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-32628\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2001\/08\/Amah-and-Angelfish-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"Amah and Angelfish\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Asian American young adult king Laurence Yep offers two books with recurring characters: In <em>The Amah<\/em>, Amy learns to shoulder more family responsibility when her widowed mother takes a time-consuming job, while in <em>Angelfish<\/em>, Amy&#8217;s friend Robin learns first-hand the tragedies caused by the Cultural Revolution when she goes to work for a bitter old man in a pet fish store.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/08\/amagazine-2001-0809-pages-young-reads.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;Young Reads,&#8221; <strong>a<\/strong><em>Magazine: Inside Asian America<\/em>, August\/September 2001<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tidbit<\/strong>: Yep was a guest at the <a href=\"http:\/\/apa.si.edu\">Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program<\/a>\u2019s literary event, <a href=\"http:\/\/apanews.si.edu\/2005\/11\/06\/three-chinese-american-childrens-book-authors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;Three Chinese American Children&#8217;s Book Authors,&#8221;<\/a> on November 6, 2005, together with Belle Yang. Da Chen had also been scheduled to attend \u2013 hence the <em>three <\/em> authors, ahem \u2013 but had to cancel at the last minute, alas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Middle Grade, Young Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2001<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6350 alignnone\" title=\"Amah.Angelfish\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/09\/amah-angelfish.jpg\" alt=\"Amah.Angelfish\" width=\"231\" height=\"165\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Asian American young-adult king Laurence Yep offers two books with recurring characters: In <em>The Amah<\/em>, Amy learns to shoulder more family responsibility when her widowed mother takes a time-consuming job, while in <em>Angelfish<\/em>, Amy&#8217;s friend Robin learns first-hand the tragedies caused by the Cultural Revolution when she goes to work for a bitter old man in a pet fish store.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/08\/amagazine-2001-0809-pages-young-reads.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Young Reads,&#8221; <strong>a<\/strong><em>Magazine: Inside Asian America<\/em>, August\/September 2001<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Middle Grade, Young Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2001<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,6,30,6535,31],"tags":[4822,4902,6608,10,11,24,2407,129,39,28],"class_list":["post-6351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chinese-american","category-fiction","category-middle-grade-readers","category-repost","category-young-adult-readers","tag-amagazine-inside-asian-america","tag-amah-and-angelfish","tag-bookdragon","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-historical","tag-laurence-yep","tag-mother-daughter-relationship","tag-parent-child-relationship","tag-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Amah and Angelfish by Laurence Yep [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-amah-and-angelfish-by-laurence-yep\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Amah and Angelfish by Laurence Yep [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Asian American young-adult king Laurence Yep offers two books with recurring characters: In The Amah, Amy learns to shoulder more family responsibility when her widowed mother takes a time-consuming job, while in Angelfish, Amy&#039;s friend Robin learns first-hand the tragedies caused by the Cultural Revolution when she goes to work for a bitter old man in a pet fish store.  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