I recently viewed three YA novels with Korean-American teens at their center for the NYT Book Review: Frankly in Love by David Yoon, Somewhere Only We Know by Maurene Goo, and Permanent Record by Mary H.K. Choi. This was a dream assignment for me, bringing together my love for YA with my more recent interest in telling the stories of Korean-Americans.

For about a year now, my friend Juliana Sohn and I have been co-hosting an arts and culture podcast for the non-profit organization KoreanAmericanStory.org. On our podcast, called K-Pod, we interview Korean-American artists, writers, actors, chefs and other creative types about their life and work. One of the questions I most love asking guests is what they were like in high school. After all, the teenage years are all about questioning your identity — and when you’re growing up caught between two cultures, the question of who you are and how you fit in can be especially hard to answer.

You can read the full text of the reviews here.

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