Reviews for American Dragons

The average rating for American Dragons based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-12-27 00:00:00 Lawrence Mize Jr I always felt like I was the only one who was "different" The only one who has to live up to two different sets of expectations. One with my family and the other with my friends. Never mix of these two because the consequences could be life-threatining, well, at least to me. However, after reading "American Dragons", it felt nice to not be "the only one". I quite enjoyed this book because it contains many different smaller stories! Another reason is because I happen to have a double identity as well, so many of the stories were easy to connect with. Even if these double identities may not be from the same cultures as I am, I was still able to understand their struggles and found many solutions to problems of my own. Another thing I really enjoyed about this book is that I was able to read not one but many stories written by different authors, therefore, I was able to get a good amount of different perspectives as well as cultural background and voices of their own. My favorite story from this book would probably be “Stoplight” by Steve Chan-No Yoon. (spoliers) It’s about the author’s experience when he first arrived in LA as a child. “The stupid children are the bad ones and the smart children are the saints” the author talks about how he thinks the Chinese way of comparing children is based on their grades and is very unfair. He also feels that it is quite hard to fit into the two societies because he has to live up to two completely different standards. Later on in the story the author meets a “friend” who has similar problems with him, the ending is quite unpredictable and leaves the reader shocked and something to think about. I would recommend this book to others who have similar double identities. However, if you happen to not come from these cultural backgrounds, many of these stories are still fascinating to read and not at all confusing!

Review # 2 was written on 2019-08-15 00:00:00 Anthony Wilson All the different stories and poems were so different, and it was really fun to experience so many different stories.