My father, the panda killer
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Published
New York : Crown Books, 2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
361 pages ; 22 cm
Status
Sierra View Library - Young Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
YA FICTION HOANG 2023
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YA FICTION HOANG 2023
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Published
New York : Crown Books, 2023.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Notes
Description
Told in alternating voices, seventeen-year-old Jane rails against her family's Vietnamese culture and struggles with a perpetually angry father, whose traumatic journey to the United States as an eleven-year-old refugee is revealed in flashbacks.
Description
"A poignant coming-of-age story told in two alternating voices: a California teenager railing against the Vietnamese culture, juxtaposed with her father as an eleven-year-old boat person on a harrowing and traumatic refugee journey from Vietnam to the United States. San Jose, 1999. Jane knows her Vietnamese dad can’t control his temper. Lost in a stupid daydream, she forgot to pick up her seven-year-old brother, Paul, from school. Inside their home, she hands her dad the stick he hits her with. This is how it’s always been. She deserves this. Not because she forgot to pick up Paul, but because at the end of the summer she’s going to leave him when she goes away to college. As Paul retreats inward, Jane realizes she must explain where their dad’s anger comes from. The problem is, she doesn’t quite understand it herself. Đà Nẵng, 1975. Phúc (pronounced /fo͞ok/, rhymes with duke) is eleven the first time his mother walks him through a field of mines he’s always been warned never to enter. Guided by cracks of moonlight, Phúc moves past fallen airplanes and battle debris to a refugee boat. But before the sun even has a chance to rise, more than half the people aboard will perish. This is only the beginning of Phúc’s perilous journey across the Pacific, which will be fraught with Thai pirates, an unrelenting ocean, starvation, hallucination, and the unfortunate murder of a panda. Told in the alternating voices of Jane and Phúc, My Father, The Panda Killer is an unflinching story about war and its impact across multiple generations, and how one American teenager forges a path toward accepting her heritage and herself."--,Provided by Amazon.
Target Audience
Ages 14 and up.,Crown Books.
Target Audience
Grades 10-12.,Crown Books.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Hoang, J. J. (2023). My father, the panda killer (First edition.). Crown Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Hoang, Jamie Jo. 2023. My Father, the Panda Killer. Crown Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Hoang, Jamie Jo. My Father, the Panda Killer Crown Books, 2023.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Hoang, Jamie Jo. My Father, the Panda Killer First edition., Crown Books, 2023.
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