![]() ![]() I’ve got the mountains and valleys, an ocean, and continents. Readers familiar with Yang's lauded "American Born Chinese" may be disappointed to find that Yang does not provide the art for this comic, but Thien Pham's simple, loose watercolor illustrations bring a light touch to this tale about expectations, realizing dreams then finding them wanting, and learning not to let parental expectations define your life - neither as a constraint or an excuse. Faced with their increasing control, and his increasing uncertainty about his "destiny" and how much he should let his father's ghost control him, Dennis must come to terms with his fathers regrets and his own.Yang creates a complex relationship between Dennis and his parents unlike many "controlling parent" stories, this tale refuses to cast them as mere obstacles to the protagonist's happiness. But he has to give up video games to do it. ![]() ![]() They're willing to do anything to help Dennis along this path, from laundry and cooking to threatening professors to get him reenrolled in college. They tell him he has an important destiny - as a gastroenterologist. When all hope for making his parents proud seems lost, four cartoonish angels, set to him by his father, appear to Dennis. On the eve of his father's death, he buys his first video game console the ensuing spiral turns hims from academic star to college dropout. Dennis Ouyang dreams in pixels, even if the games that inspire those dreams remain out of reach. ![]()
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