{"id":14,"date":"2014-01-20T02:03:01","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T02:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybookreport.net\/?p=14"},"modified":"2014-01-20T02:03:01","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T02:03:01","slug":"american-born-chinese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybookreport.net\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"American Born Chinese"},"content":{"rendered":"

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American Born Chinese<\/b> by Gene Luen Yang was picked up on a whim and it’s excellent. It has three main characters: Jin Wang, a Chinese boy who wants to be All-American (which means white, at least in his eyes and his classmates eyes), the goddamn Monkey King who has his own problems, and Danny, who is ‘All-American’ and suffers from visits from his cousin Chin-Kee that end so badly he has to constantly keep transferring schools. <\/p>\n

They’re three separate stories that came together in a way I really was not expecting.<\/p>\n

There’s parts of this where kids are cruel enough that it hurts to read, especially on the tail of something that I’d just read in Johnny and the Bomb<\/b> by Terry Pratchett (gonna be done that today) and it’s a good example of how kids can be horrible for no good reason. And it’s placed so expertly you can see why Jin makes the decisions he does. <\/p>\n

Plus any scenes with the Monkey King are great. Gene Yang draws him with the best face.<\/p>\n

Art was excellent, and the story was great. I recommend this without reservation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang was picked up on a whim and it’s excellent. It has three main characters: Jin Wang, a Chinese boy who wants to be All-American (which means white, at least in his eyes and his classmates eyes), the goddamn Monkey King who has his own problems, and Danny, who … Continue reading American Born Chinese<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10,5],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review","tag-comic","tag-a-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybookreport.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybookreport.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybookreport.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybookreport.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybookreport.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybookreport.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15,"href":"https:\/\/mybookreport.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybookreport.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybookreport.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybookreport.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}