Mimi prepares to celebrate the Year of the Dragon in
The Garden of Empress Cassia
BookDragon sums up the reasons why you'll want to share this award-winner!
The Garden of Empress Cassia
BookDragon sums up the reasons why you'll want to share this award-winner!
"In just under a hundred pages, third-generation Australian Chinese author Gabrielle Wang melds history and life lessons into an exciting adventure. She deftly inserts difficult events as vast as the Cultural Revolution (Mimi’s mother’s childhood), as personal as degrees of cultural assimilation among different generations of immigrants (Mimi and her parents), and as familiar as opposing sibling dynamics (Mimi’s strict father and his ill younger brother). Wang realistically presents today’s challenges at school – without easy fixes – from cliques to culture clashes to burgeoning boy/girl dynamics. And through it all, she’s got just the right balance to tell a really good, lasting story. That’s a feat of welcome magic indeed."
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