* “A timely and ultimately hopeful tale.” - Kirkus Reviews, starred review. It was released from Kokila(Penguin Random House) in June 2021, and links to purchase it are available online here, or through any bookseller of your choice. The Legend of Auntie Po is about who gets to own a myth, and about immigrant families and communities holding on to rituals and traditions while staking out their own place in America. Thirteen-year-old Mei reimagines the myths of Paul Bunyan as starring a Chinese heroine while she works in a Sierra Nevada logging camp in 1885.Īware of the racial tumult in the years after the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act, Mei tries to remain blissfully focused on her job, her close friendship with the camp foreman’s daughter, and telling stories about Paul Bunyan–reinvented as Po Pan Yin (Auntie Po), an elderly Chinese matriarch. The Legend of Auntie Po is my second full-length graphic novel, and my first middle grade(and historical fiction!) book.
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