Open Mic Open Mic

Open Mic

Riffs on Life Between Cultures in Ten Voices

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Publisher 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.

GENRE
Young Adult
RELEASED
2013
September 10
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
144
Pages
PUBLISHER
Candlewick Press
SELLER
Candlewick Press, Inc.
SIZE
2
MB
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