By Kam Mak
Harper Collins Publisher New York 2002
ISBN 0-06-029191-5
Digitally enhanced paintings
Annotation
We travel through an immigrant boys first two years in New York away from Hong Kong. His experience changes slightly through each poem depicting the season in New York's Chinatown. The boys memories are celebrated and eventually his new experiences are celebrated.
Personal Reaction
Each poem takes us through the immigrant experience and the trepidation and homesickness the boy feels. As the year wains the poems become more excepting and we feel him switch from longing for his old country to celebrating his culture in his new one. The poems are accompanied by an opposite full page illustration, so realistic that the reader will feel the memory of Hong Kong. The illustrations bright and full of perspective of light as if it is a photograph.
Simile "English words taste like metal in my mouth"
Single book-length poem, because each poem is connected to the themed story of this boys experience of immigration and depicts the change in his attitude.
Immigration
Poetry: Connected through the entire book
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