B Reviews / Book ReviewsAsian Americans / Chinese-American MCs / coming-of-age / family relationships / First-Person / high-school / immigrant / New-Jersey / parents / POC / POC author / racism / Young-Adult8 Comments
David Tung is a Chinese American high-school student in an upscale, Asian-majority, New Jersey suburb who works every day at his family’s restaurant and strategizes every homeroom about how to improve his class rank so he can get into an Ivy League college. His only release? Hanging with his “real” ... more >
B- Reviews / Book ReviewsChinese-American MCs / Contemporary / Manhattan / novella / POC / POC author / Uptown Book series3 Comments
Dear Ruby Lang, Oliver Huang and Fay Liu, are both Chinese-American urban planners in Manhattan. When Oliver is first introduced to the reader he presents himself as unemployed and taking some short term contract work to keep himself afloat. But it became apparent to me that what he really is ... more >