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American Dragons: Twenty-Five Asian American Voices
American Dragons TwentyFive Asian American Voices Author:Laurence Yep The dragon, a symbol of Asian art and mythology, appears in many guises and is always adaptable -- a survivor par excellence. Asian Americans display this same supple strength as they move between their Asian culture and their American one. — In American Dragons, Laurence Yep brings together twenty-five talented writers, each with a differ... more »ent story about the Asian American experience:
- A Chinese American girl struggles to find her place in a suburban high school without denying her true intelligence.
- A young woman is torn when her romantic feelings clash with the expectations of her Vietnamese parents.
- A twenty-first-century teenager and his aging grandfather learn that it is possible to live in the future without losing touch with the past.
Translations / Wing Tek Lum --
Yahk Fahn, Auntie / Darrell Lum --
Stoplight / Steve Chan-No Yoon --
Miss Butterfly / Toshio Mori --
Hollywood and the Pits / Cherylene Lee --
Who's Hu? / Lensey Namioka --
For my father / Janice Mirikitani --
A father's wishes--
/ Alan Chong Lau --
Dana's eyes / Nicol Juratovac --
Koden / Judith Nihei --
Breaking tradition / Janice Mirikitani --
A sea worry / Maxine Hong Kingston --
Attention to detail / Richard Haratani --
Desert flowers / Janice Mirikitani --
A taste of snow / Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston --
They was close, those brothers / Lane Nishikawa --
And the soul shall dance / Wakako Yamauchi --
Rain music / Longhang Nguyen --
A lesson from the heart / Julie Yabu --
Yai / Visalaya Hirunpidok --
There's no reason to get romantic / Ann Tashi Slater --