American Born Chinese

American Born Chinese

By: Gene Luen Yang

Pages:240

ISBN: 1596431520

Genre: Graphic Novel, Humor

Setting: Alternate Universe

So this was first to me and a last. The story is about three different personalities. I say this cause one is a monkey king, another is a Chinese boy, and another is a white young man. This story drove me nuts. I laughed maybe twice. My boyfriend laughed a ton. Think it just wasn’t my type of humor. So to summarize the Monkey is a king of a mountain. In the first little story he tries to go to a dinner party but is turned away because he has no shoes. So he get’s shoes. The Chinese boy moves to a new town and has no friends, but in the end a Taiwanese boy moves in and has a transformer so they become friends. The white boy is new at the school and his very strange cousin comes for a visit. All three stories progress, lamely I might add; in the end the monkey is the dad of the Taiwanese boy and had sent for a test. The white boy was really the Chinese boy after he had make some deal with an old lady. But it ends happy with the Chinese boy liking being a Chinese boy. I’ll give the book this it tied up the book in the end very well.