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185 pp.
| Scholastic/Orchard |
October, 2003 |
TradeISBN 0-439-43538-2$$16.95
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YAFirst Person Fiction series.
Ostensibly a story of growing up Korean American, this fictionalized memoir is as much a picture of mid-1970s middle-class American life, Star Wars and all. First in Memphis and then in Houston, Jin-Han's immigrant family tries for the American dream by running wig stores in black neighborhoods. Son adroitly blends the theme of assimilation with detail attentive to the particulars of Jin-Han's boyhood.