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American Han 1001 series When he meets Alexandra Lopez—aAmerican Han shook me to my core. Gutting in its quietest moments and heartbreakingly familiar in its loudest conflicts, this book is a gripping portrait of the cost of assimilation into American life." Muriel Leung, Lambda award winning author of How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster Growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1980s, Jane Kim and her brother, Kevin, dutifully embodied the model minority myth as their parents