![]() The brilliance of this novel-and I mean, aside from the brilliance in the telling of a major historical episode about which most North Americans know very little and which provides some critical lessons in political relationships-the brilliance lies in the merger of fast action and humor and very real characters and startling graphics with a shattering sense of the brokenness of the world and our terrible need for compassion. ![]() American Born Chinese a memoir about growing up as an Asian American became the first graphic novel to win the American Library Association’s Printz Award and a National Book Award finalist. But when they find that their commitments lead them in terrible, frightening directions-one toward massacres, another toward martyrdom-they must ask questions for which there are no easy answers. Gene Luen Yang writes, and sometimes draws, comic books and graphic novels. “In Boxers and Saints, Gene Luen Yang once again masterfully draws us into the most difficult issues of self-identity and communal understanding, with characters who struggle to act out of their deepest cultural and spiritual selves. Gene Luen Yang is known as a cartoonist the author of American Born Chinese and the New Super-Man comics, hes received a. They both carry out feats that can either be recognized as justified or not however, it is nearly impossible to. Yang conveys his stories through dual characters: Bao, a Boxer, and Vibiana, a Chinese Christian. ![]() “A masterful work of historical fiction that happens to be in the form of a graphic novel, and a very accessible view into a complicated moment in Chinese history.” -Dave Eggers Throughout Boxers and Saints by Gene Luen Yang, the idea of justice is perpetually dwelled upon. ![]()
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