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pyrrhicspondee 's review for:
The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye
by Sonny Liew
I loved this book. I'm looking for a new graphic novel for my English 12 class that does similar things to Maus but is more immediately engaging than Maus. I may have found it. Lots of weird things are happening with metanarrative and the nature of history. And the layers between the reader and the "truth" in The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye are reminiscent of the layers in Maus, only in a wholly different order that probably creates different effects that I haven't fully figured out for myself. And that's exactly WHY I want to teach it. I love puzzles. Also, I learned about Singapore, a country about which I knew almost nothing (to whit, all I knew: Joanna is from there; they caned an American teenager for chewing gum or spitting it out in the wrong place).