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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 differen... more »t 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.« less