The fable is filtered through some very specific cultural icons: the much-beloved Monkey King, a figure familiar to Chinese kids the world over, and a buck-toothed amalgamation of racist stereotypes named Chin-Kee.
This much-anticipated, affecting story about growing up different is more than just the story of a Chinese-American childhood it's a fable for every kid born into a body and a life they wished they could escape. And, oh, yes, his parents are from Taiwan. As alienated kids go, Jin Wang is fairly run-of-the-mill: he eats lunch by himself in a corner of the schoolyard, gets picked on by bullies and jocks and develops a sweat-inducing crush on a pretty classmate.
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