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bigWOWO rating: Asian American Gold

Someone asked why I’m reading YA Lit.  Here’s are some of the reasons:

1. I read this article in the New Yorker:
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2010/06/14/100614crat_atlarge_miller
I was intrigued by what the author says about the contrast of “didactic”-ness in adult dystopian lit vs. YA dystopian lit.  Of course the books I’ve been reading aren’t dystopian, but I figured the same principles would apply.

2. From an activist standpoint, I wondered what YA writers are telling kids.  Frank Chin once wrote something about Asian American authors/readers saying that it’s late to be children but it’s not too late to be children.  They didn’t have any of these ethnic children’s/young adult books when I was young, and so I’m checking them out now.