{"id":1551,"date":"2009-08-12T13:18:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T13:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1551"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:31:23","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:31:23","slug":"one-shot-world-tour-southeast-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1551","title":{"rendered":"One Shot World Tour: Southeast Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Nations of Southeast Asia–Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines–are the focus of today’s One Shot World Tour. And can we just say how difficult it is to find YA literature that specifically focuses on these regions? Clearly there is a rich area of experience that readers are missing out on–and readers of Southeast Asian heritage aren’t seeing their experiences reflected as often as they could be.<\/p>\n

One of the few times we’ve featured a significant Southeast Asian author was our review of Town Boy<\/i><\/a> by well-known Malaysian cartoonist Lat<\/a>. This 2007 Cybils Graphic Novel nominee is the sequel to Kampung Boy<\/i>; both are available from First Second Books<\/a>. “The reader really feels like they’re getting a glimpse of what life was like growing up in the Malaysia of the ’60s,” we wrote in our review. But what about the Thailand of today, or the Philippine-American experience? Resources seem sparse, but we’ve tried to compile a handful of helpful links that might lead interested readers in the right direction.<\/p>\n