![]() Primarily a family story unfolding in contemporary USA and Taiwan, it also features high school life, friendships, and budding romances.Ībundant with intersectionality, the content addresses diverse topics such as: mental illness, through explicit descriptions of depression and suicide race and ethnicity, through an embedded conflict resulting from interracial marriage, and by centering biracial protagonists (Asian/White, Asian/LatinX) LGBTQ identity single parent households and socioeconomic disparities.Īs realistic fiction interwoven with magical realism, the plot offers rich potential for addressing universal themes that arise as one encounters and explores different worlds and their liminal spaces-be they physical, cultural, or psychological. This YA novel’s protagonist is Leigh Chen Sanders, a teenage, biracial, single child with a Chinese-Taiwanese mother and Irish-American father. ![]()
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