After years of printing comics at Kinko's and selling them at conventions and local shops, Gene Luen Yang didn't expect his 2006 graphic novel American Born Chinese to get the attention it did.Blending the coming-of-age journey of Jin Wang, the son of ChineseAmerican immigrants, with the adventures of characters from the Chinese epic Journey to the West, the best-selling book was a National Book Award finalist and won the American Library Association's Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature.
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