A review by jentang
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang

4.25

Reading this book today was quite crazy considering just yesterday morning I had been searching for The Monkey King on Google as I'd remembered its existence (and subsequently realized I had forgotten how to say it in Chinese). I also want to get a name seal tattoo in the style of the stamp on the pages, so hopefully this will be a flash forward moment to in a few years when I'll have actually gotten it done. Anyways, what a touching little book! The suffering of minorities is awful but at least the unoriginality of it can lead to comfort across any given minority community, I suppose. I think the beauty of it is growing up and never wanting to be a Danny anymore. I miss being in Beijing and East Asia in general so much..