Asian Pacific Islander Adult & Young Adult Graphic Novels

This book explores different facets of Chinese American identity with pop culture and alternating points of view and style.

Exploring the anguish of immigration and the lasting effects that displacement has on a child and her family, Bui documents the story of her family's daring escape after the fall of South Vietnam in the 1970s, and the difficulties they faced building new lives for themselves. She also writes about the impact that colonialism and war in Vietnam had on one family, her own.

Arriving in her native Philippines for her beloved father’s funeral, Canadian writer Lorina Mapa begins to reminisce about her youth, growing up as the doted-upon daughter of a well-to-do family, listening to Western pop music and watching classic American films on video. All the while, the Philippines are in tumult as a popular uprising attempts to overthrow the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos and install into the presidency Corazon Aquino, the widow of assassinated congressman Benigno Aquino.