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1) Good Enough
Author
Language
English
Description
How to make your Korean parents happy: 1. Get a perfect score on the SATs.2. Get into Harvard, Yale or Princeton.3. Don't talk to boys.*Patti's parents expect nothing less than the best from their Korean-American daughter. Everything she does affects her chances of getting into an Ivy League school. So winning assistant concertmaster in her All-State violin competition and earning less than 2300 on her SATs is simply not good enough. But Patti's discovering...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
A compelling account of the killing of Vincent Chin, the verdicts that took the Asian-American community to the streets in protest, and the groundbreaking civil rights trial that followed.
America in 1982. Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting American autoworkers out of their jobs. Anti-Asian-American sentiments simmer, especially in Detroit. A bar fight turns fatal, leaving Vincent Chin - a Chinese-American man - beaten...
Author
Publisher
Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
358 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Paula Yoo’s latest is a compelling, nuanced account of Los Angeles’s 1992 uprising and its impact on its Korean and Black American communities.