The all-American : a novel /
Milan, Joe, Jr.,
The all-American : a novel / Joe Milan Jr. - First edition. - 309 pages ; 24 cm
"A debut novel grappling with contested American identity, masculinity, and deportation, told in one of the most memorable adolescent voices in contemporary literature"-- Seventeen year old Bucky Yi knows nothing about his birth country of South Korea or his bio-dad's disappearance. His sights are set on one all-American goal: to become a college football player. So when a misadventure with his adoptive family leads to his deportation to South Korea, Bucky is forced to navigate an entirely foreign version of his life. One mishap leads to another, and he has to fall back on not just his raw physical strength, but resources of character and attitude he didn't know he had.
9781324035657 132403565X
2022048804
GBC339693 bnb
020965719 Uk
Adoptees--Fiction.
Korean Americans--Fiction.
Identity (Psychology)--Fiction.
Deportees--Fiction.
Masculinity--Fiction.
Korea (South)--Fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Novels.
The all-American : a novel / Joe Milan Jr. - First edition. - 309 pages ; 24 cm
"A debut novel grappling with contested American identity, masculinity, and deportation, told in one of the most memorable adolescent voices in contemporary literature"-- Seventeen year old Bucky Yi knows nothing about his birth country of South Korea or his bio-dad's disappearance. His sights are set on one all-American goal: to become a college football player. So when a misadventure with his adoptive family leads to his deportation to South Korea, Bucky is forced to navigate an entirely foreign version of his life. One mishap leads to another, and he has to fall back on not just his raw physical strength, but resources of character and attitude he didn't know he had.
9781324035657 132403565X
2022048804
GBC339693 bnb
020965719 Uk
Adoptees--Fiction.
Korean Americans--Fiction.
Identity (Psychology)--Fiction.
Deportees--Fiction.
Masculinity--Fiction.
Korea (South)--Fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Novels.