As a child growing up in Malaysia, Shing Yin Khor had two very different ideas of what "America" meant. The first looked a lot like Hollywood, full of beautiful people and sunlight and freeways. The second looked more like The Grapes of Wrath - a nightmare landscape filled with impoverished people, broken-down cars, barren landscapes, and broken dreams.
Those contrasting ideas have stuck with Shing ever since, even now that she lives and works in LA. The American Dream? A Journey on Route 66 is Shing's attempt to find what she can of both of these Americas on a solo journey (small adventure-dog included) across the entire expanse of that iconic road, beginning in Santa Monica and ending up Chicago.
And what begins as a road trip ends up as something more like a pilgrimage in search of an American landscape that seems forever shifting, forever out of place.
| ISBN: | 9781942186373 |
| Publication date: | 8th June 2019 |
| Author: | Shing Yin Khor |
| Publisher: | Zest Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 160 pages |
| Genres: |
People / Places |
As a child growing up in Malaysia, Shing Yin Khor had two very different ideas of what "America" meant. The first looked a lot like Hollywood, full of beautiful people and sunlight and freeways.
The American Dream? features in the following genres: People / Places
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The American Dream? was written by Shing Yin Khor and published by Zest Books
The American Dream? has 160 pages