My Life: Growing up Asian in America

 

Title:  My Life: Growing up Asian in America

Author:  Melissa de la Cruz, Marie Lu, Aisha Sultan, Nathan Ramos-Park, etc.

Narrated by:  Jennifer Aquino, Ramón de Ocampo, Deepti Gupta, Kamran R. Khan, Marie Lu, etc.

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Length: Approximately 5 hours and 47 minutes

Source: Review Copy from Simon & Schuster.  Thank-you!

May was Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month.  I thought it was a great month to listen to My Life:  Growing Up Asian in America. This audiobook was 30 essays from varying perspectives about growing up Asian in America.  “There are 23 million people, representing more than twenty countries, each with unique languages, histories, and cultures, clumped under one banner: Asian American.”  Listening to these essays made me realize just how many different experiences there are as an “Asian American.”

The essays were heartfelt and interesting.  They were put together after the shootings in Atlanta and rise of anti-Asian crimes during the COVID epidemic.  They focused on microaggressions and racism that occurred to the authors while growing up.    They were told in different styles and with different narrators in the audiobook for each essay.  It made it a very interesting listening experience.  This was published by the Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment (CAPE) and MTV books.  I thought that it was very thought-provoking.  I would be interested in listening to more audiobooks like this about different experiences growing up in America. 

Overall, My Life:  Growing up Asian in America is an important book to help understand different perspectives in America.