Asian Pacific Islander American Heritage Month 2020: Graphic NovelsLike this list

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• Cook Korean!

  a Comic Book With Recipes

  Ha, Robin,

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  A charming introduction to the basics of Korean cooking in graphic novel form, with 64 recipes, ingredient profiles, and more, presented through light-hearted comics

• Good Talk

  a Memoir in Conversations

  Jacob, Mira, 1973-

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  Like many six-year-olds, Mira Jacob's half-Jewish, half-Indian son, Z, has questions about everything. At first they are innocuous enough, but as tensions from the 2016 election spread from the media into his own family, they become much,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tina's Mouth : An Existential Comic Diary

  Kashyap, Keshni

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  Tina, an Indian-American living in San Francisco, writes an illustrated diary to Jean-Paul Sartre as part of a semesterlong existentialism class in this charming coming-of-age story.

• The Best We Could Do

  Bui, Thi,

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  The author describes her experiences as a young Vietnamese immigrant, highlighting her family's move from their war-torn home to the United States.

• American Born Chinese

  Yang, Gene Luen

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  Alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in the popular culture

• They Called Us Enemy

  Takei, George, 1937-

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  A stunning graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei s childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon and America itself in this gripping…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Empire State

  a Love Story (or Not)

  Shiga, Jason

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  Jimmy, a socially awkward young man, gathers his courage to follow his crush to the Big Apple, where he is surprised by the city and heartbroken to learn Sara has a boyfriend.

• Diary of a Tokyo Teen

  Inzer, Christine Mari

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  The summer before she turned sixteen, author/illustrator Christine Inzer traveled solo to Tokyo to get reacquainted with her birthplace. Through charming illustrations, photos, and musings, Christine takes us on a journey through modern…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Skim

  Tamaki, Mariko

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  Suicide, depression, love, being gay or not, crushes, cliques of popular, manipulative peers, the whole gamut of tortured teen life is explored in this graphic novel.