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Title:
Open Mic
Riffs on Life Between Cultures in Ten Voices
Author:
Perkins, Mitali
Yang, Gene Luen
Yoo, David
Cheva, Cherry
Johnson, Varian
Neri, G.
Shihab Nye, Naomi
Rhuday-Perkovich, Olugbemisola
Rigaud, Debbie
Stork, Francisco
Subject:
Short Stories |
Young Adult Literature |
Young Adult Fiction |
Humor (Fiction) |
Description:
Using humor as the common denominator, a multicultural cast of YA authors steps up to the mic to share stories touching on race.Listen in as ten YA authors — some familiar, some new — use their own brand of humor to share their stories about growing up between cultures. Henry Choi Lee discovers that pretending to be a tai chi master or a sought-after wiz at math wins him friends for a while — until it comically backfires. A biracial girl is amused when her dad clears seats for his family on a crowded subway in under a minute flat, simply by sitting quietly in between two uptight white women. Edited by acclaimed author and speaker Mitali Perkins, this collection of fiction and nonfiction uses a mix of styles as diverse as their authors, from laugh-out-loud funny to wry, ironic, or poingnant, in prose, poetry, and comic form.
Publisher:
Candlewick Press
Period_date:
2013/09/10
Erc_format:
Libby eBook
Language:
English