The American Dream?: A Journey on Route 66 Discovering Dinosaur Statues, Muffler Men, and the Perfect Breakfast Burrito by Khor, Shing Yin

The American Dream?: A Journey on Route 66 Discovering Dinosaur Statues, Muffler Men, and the Perfect Breakfast Burrito

As a child growing up in Malaysia, Shing Yin Khor had two very different ideas of what...
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The American Dream?: A Journey on Route 66 Discovering Dinosaur Statues, Muffler Men, and the Perfect Breakfast Burrito by Khor, Shing Yin

The American Dream?: A Journey on Route 66 Discovering Dinosaur Statues, Muffler Men, and the Perfect Breakfast Burrito

$126.80

The American Dream?: A Journey on Route 66 Discovering Dinosaur Statues, Muffler Men, and the Perfect Breakfast Burrito

$126.80
Author: Shing Yin Khor
Format: Library Binding
Language: English

As a child growing up in Malaysia, Shing Yin Khor had two very different ideas of what America meant.

The first looked a lot like Hollywood, full of beautiful people, sunlight, and freeways. The second looked more like The Grapes of Wrath--a nightmare landscape filled with impoverished people, broken-down cars, barren landscapes, and broken dreams.

Follow along on Shing's solo journey (small adventure-dog included) along the iconic Route 66, beginning in Santa Monica and ending up Chicago. What begins as a road trip ends up as something more like a pilgrimage in search of an American landscape that seems forever shifting and forever out of place.

"Just like Shing in real life, The American Dream? is quirky, honest, captivating, and filled with recollections of weird roadside statues."--Carol L. Tilley, comics historian and information science professor

"Shing Yin Khor's debut graphic memoir The American Dream? is the critical antidote to the whitewashed narratives of the great American road trip." --Kristina Wong, performance artist and activist

"A lovely, deceptively simple road trip memoir that revels in quirky discovery and quiet adventure while grappling with the anger and longing of one immigrant's experience." --Greg Pak, comic book writer

Khor takes that 'feeling of desperately searching for something better, for a new start, ' and adapts it to their own 'pilgrimage' as immigrant and artist traveling historic Route 66 . . . in whimsical full-color detail.--starred, Booklist

This is a book that will make you want to pack a bag, jump in your car and travel across America.--Geek Mom

A Forbes Best Graphic Novel of 2019



Author: Shing Yin Khor
Publisher: Zest Books (Tm)
Published: 08/06/2019
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Library Binding
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.60w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781541578524
Audience: Young Adult

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.1
Point Value: 1
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 510126 / American Dream? a Journey on Route 66 Discovering Dinosaur Statues, Muffler Men, and the Perfect Bur


Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 06/01/2019 pg. 94
Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2019
Booklist 07/01/2019 pg. 46

About the Author
Khor, Shing Yin: - Shing Yin Khor is a cartoonist and installation artist exploring personal narrative, new human rituals, and collaborative worldbuilding through graphic memoir and large scale art structures, and creating comics at the intersection of race, gender, immigrant stories, and queerness. They make the road trip adventure comic Tiny Adventure Journal, the tender queer science fiction comic Center for Otherworld Science, and is also the author of The American Dream?. They live in Los Angeles.

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