dragonwings

[toastykitten]

Hey, I finished it! It was so good. I love Laurence Yep's ability to weave Chinese history and his own made-up fairy tales into his stories. I was a little taken aback by the way he uses the perspective of Moon Shadow to narrate the story, but it does feel true to life. Everything rang pretty true, and I really liked the descriptions of Chinatown life, and the little historical asides, and the way Moon Shadow just adapts to things as they happen. The parts where he gets threatened by Black Dog are genuinely frightening. 

I wish I could read more literary critiques or maybe like someone's retrospective of Yep's career - he is genuinely one of the most successful Asian American authors, and most prolific that I know of, but it seems like a shame that his stuff isn't studied or critiqued alongside Maxine Hong Kingston's.