Yell-Oh Girls! : : Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity, and Growing up Asian American
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submitted by Tee Chuan on August 2, 2011, 5:59pm
Some parts are really good, but a few are really bad.
The bad parts:
1) Some stories are repetitive
2) Some of them were, well, explicit. Especially one at the last section. It's not R-rated, but about PG-13.
I identified with a lot of the girls who wrote these stories.
I know how it feels to be regarded as an Asian in America and an American in Thailand.
I know how it feels to have some Thai people in Thailand treat me as a stupid American foreigner, and I know too well the stigma about not being able to speak Thai. Now I can speak, read, and write, but 1) I hate it when people assume I can't and 2) others like my sister don't like being insulted just because of that.
When I read this book, there were "aha!" and "me, too!" moments where I felt tremendous relief. I felt relief over the fact that other Asian American girls do understand. They do go through things I go through.
PUBLISHED
New York : Quill, c2001.
Year Published: 2001
Description: xxxv, 297 p. ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
READING LEVEL
Lexile: 1080
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0060959444 :
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Nam, Victoria.
SUBJECTS
Asian American teenage girls -- Psychology.
Asian American teenage girls -- Physiology.
Self-esteem in adolescence.
Body image in adolescence.
Youths' writings, American.