Publishers Weekly, May 16th, 1994
Although San Francisco is known as one of the nation's most ethnically diverse and tolerant cities, its citizens nonetheless faced many of the same pressures of assimilation as other Americans. For Laurence Yep, an Asian American whose Dragon's Gate recently received a 1994 Newbery Honor, writing about the problems immigrants face trying to fit in has not been particularly easy. "Because my old neighborhood was primarily black and white," he says, "I knew at an early age what it was like to be an outsider. If we were playing war games, I was the resident Asian who--depending on what conflict...
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