Not Your All-American Girl

LISTEN TO THE PODCAST    |    READ THE TRANSCRIPT    |    BUY THE BOOK

May is Jewish American Heritage Month and Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month. We celebrate both on The Book of Life by talking to Madelyn Rosenberg and Wendy Wan-Long Shang, co-authors of This Is Just a Test and Not Your All-American Girl, a pair of middle grade novels set in the 1980's that feature a Jewish Chinese American family.

I also want to take this opportunity to welcome new Patreon patron Erica Lyons, a listener who lives in Hong Kong and is raising a child who is both Chinese and Jewish. If you'd like to join Erica in supporting the podcast, please visit patreon.com/bookoflife.

LEARN MORE:

• 

  Wendy & Madelyn hula hooping
  

  Madelyn Rosenberg's website
• Wendy Wan-Long Shang's website
• Madelyn's Tikkun Olam suggestion: ihollaback.org
• Wendy's Tikkun Olam suggestion: Shout Mouse Press
• Book that Wendy mentioned: From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement
  
• Jewish American Heritage Month
  
• Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month
  

NEWS: PODCAST LIVE SHOW!

The Book of Life is doing a free virtual Live Show on Wednesday, May 26, 2021 at 7:00PM Eastern Time, presented in partnership with the Jewish Grandparents Network Family Room Initiative. Guests will be Esther Safran Foer, the matriarch of a prominent literary family and author of I Want You to Know We’re Still Here: A Post-Holocaust Memoir, joined by her teenage granddaughter Sadie.

REGISTER HERE!

CREDITS:

• Produced by Feldman Children's Library at Congregation B'nai Israel
• Theme Music: The Freilachmakers Klezmer String Band
• Facebook Discussion Group: Jewish Kidlit Mavens
• Facebook Page: Facebook.com/bookoflifepodcast
• Twitter: @bookoflifepod
• Support the Podcast: Shop or Donate

Your feedback is welcome! Please write to bookoflifepodcast@gmail.com or leave a voicemail at 561-206-2473.