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Aware 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. More about this book >
Shing Yin Khor is an Eisner and Ignatz Award–winning graphic novelist, IndieCade Award–winning game designer, and wooden marionette builder based in Los Angeles, CA, by way of Malacca, Malaysia. Their first full length graphic novel memoir, The American Dream? A Journey on Route 66, was one of NPR’s 2019 Best Books of the Year. Their second graphic novel, The Legend of Auntie Po was a National Book Award Finalist.
(Photo credit: Shing Yin Khor)
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