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A review by booktrunks
Finding My Voice by Marie Myung-Ok Lee
4.0
Synopsis: This book is an own-voices novel originally published in 1992 about Ellen Sung and her experience growing up in an all-white school as the only Asian-American family. We follow Ellen through her last year of high school as she battles school, college applications, romance, and racism.
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Thoughts: I have to admit that I didn’t realize this book was originally published in 1992 until about halfway through the book! This is considered to be the first Asian Own Voices novel, and I found it to be a really lovely one. It’s great to see Ellen kind of come into her own, and at the same time it’s a really heartbreaking story. This is a really quick read, and definitely worth it.
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Thoughts: I have to admit that I didn’t realize this book was originally published in 1992 until about halfway through the book! This is considered to be the first Asian Own Voices novel, and I found it to be a really lovely one. It’s great to see Ellen kind of come into her own, and at the same time it’s a really heartbreaking story. This is a really quick read, and definitely worth it.