{"product_id":"american-dream-book-shing-yin-khor-9781541578524","title":"The American Dream?","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs a child growing up in Malaysia, Shing Yin Khor had two very different ideas of what \"America\" meant.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe first looked a lot like Hollywood, full of beautiful people, sunlight, and freeways. The second looked more like The Grapes of Wrath--a nightmare landscape filled with impoverished people, broken-down cars, barren landscapes, and broken dreams.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFollow along on Shing's solo journey (small adventure-dog included) along the iconic Route 66, beginning in Santa Monica and ending up Chicago. What begins as a road trip ends up as something more like a pilgrimage in search of an American landscape that seems forever shifting and forever out of place.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Just like Shing in real life, The American Dream? is quirky, honest,captivating, and filled with recollections of weird roadside statues.\"--Carol L. Tilley, comics historian and information science professor\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Shing Yin Khor's debut graphic memoir The American Dream? is thecritical antidote to the whitewashed narratives of the great Americanroad trip.\"--Kristina Wong, performance artist and activist\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A lovely, deceptively simple road trip memoir that revels in quirkydiscovery and quiet adventure while grappling with the anger andlonging of one immigrant's experience.\"--Greg Pak, comic book writer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Khor takes that 'feeling of desperately searching for something better, for a new start,' and adapts it to their own 'pilgrimage' as immigrant and artist traveling historic Route 66 . . . in whimsical full-color detail.\"--starred, Booklist\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This is a book that will make you want to pack a bag, jump in your car and travel across America.\"--Geek Mom\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Forbes Best Graphic Novel of 2019\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50883454075153,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50883454206225,"sku":"GOR014104052","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/154157852X.jpg?v=1750990600","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/american-dream-book-shing-yin-khor-9781541578524","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}