#147 - Author Chat w/ Andrea Wang
Books and Boba
English - August 18, 2021 05:08 - 55 minutes - 44.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 109 ratingsBooks Arts Society & Culture asian-american book-club reading asian authors Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
On this episode, we chat with author Andrea Wang about her new middle grade novel The Many Meaning of Meilan, a coming of age story about a Chinese American girl who finds strength in the many meanings of her name as she struggles to adjust to moving from Boston's Chinatown to a small town in Ohio. We chat with Andrea about her journey to becoming a childen's book author and her inspirations for writing her novel. We also share some of our own experiences with our uncommon Asian names.
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