View Saints Book Gene Luen Yang Pictures. Graphic novelist gene luen yang's new book, boxers & saints, has been nominated for a national book award. Gene luen yang is the national ambassador for young people's literature and is a macarthur fellow, a recipient of what's popularly known as the macarthur genius grant.
Saints by gene luen yang, 9781596436893, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Yang tells npr's petra mayer that he was inspired by the controversial canonization of. Gene luen yang began drawing comic books in the fifth grade.
Boxers begins like the kind of legend the rebels might have told themselves, with its scrawny young hero seeking out the.
Please log in to add saints to one of your shelves. Gene luen yang's breakthrough graphic novel, american born chinese, was hugely ambitious: The that same skill yang uses to paint the political, social, and interpersonal tensions in a:tla, he brings to boxers and its companion volume saints. This innovative format presents two parallel tales about young people caught up on opposite american born chinese author gene luen yang brings his trademark magical realism to the complexities of the boxer rebellion, and lays bare.