Asian Pacific Heritage Month
The papertigers site is currently celebrating Asian Pacific Heritage Month and has a terrific collection of authors talking about what it means to be a writer with what Laurence Yep calls an ‘ethnic qualifier’.
An interview with Linda Sue Park, author of the Newbery-winning A Single Shard, essays on topics such as breaking down the assumptions about books by ‘hyphenated Americans’ and book reviews make for some thoughtful reading, albeit with a distinct American focus. The pages will be up until the end of June.
And if you haven’t yet caught up with American Born Chinese, Gene Luen Yang’s award-winning graphic novel, make the celebration of this month the catalyst to do so.
