The author of I Love You, Beth Cooper returns with an ingenious contemporary satire set in an alternate universe populated by the aliens, mutants, and atomic monsters of B-movie legend. In honor of Book Expo America, which we both attended this week, we’d like to share the books that both of us picked up at the show that we haven’t posted about before. This week, we’re doing something a little bit different. This is how the Smugglers’ Radar was born, and because there are far too many books that we want than we can possibly buy or review (what else is new?) we thought we could make it into a weekly feature – so YOU can tell us which books you have on your radar as well! Mitali Perkins in an interview with Cynsationsįind out more about Mitali Perkins and her books at her website, or follow her on Twitter.“On The Smugglers’ Radar” is a new feature for books that have caught our eye: books we heard of via other bloggers, directly from publishers, and/or from our regular incursions into the Amazon jungle. Some of my books are about race, but in others, like the First Daughter books and Monsoon Summer, ethnicity plays only a small part in the plot.” I don’t like being automatically shelved in the multicultural section, and feel that being labeled like that sometimes hinders my books from getting into the right hands or more hearts. “I’m proud to be an Asian American author, and yet hope that many young readers from all different backgrounds will enjoy my stories.
Mitali Perkins in an interview with Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast Through stories, immigrant, adopted, and bi-racial kids can achieve the flexibility needed to survive life between cultures, as well as to make themselves feel at home.” It means that you’d better learn to flex your spirit so that you can eventually feel at home in many places or that you’ll spend a bulk of your formative years feeling disenfranchised. “Living between cultures means that you don’t feel like you fit either in your community of origin or in mainstream Americana.
She frequently blogs about life between cultures at her website, Mitali’s Fire Escape. She is the author of many critically acclaimed books for children and young adults, and the editor of the forthcoming anthology Open Mic: Riffs on Life Between Cultures in Ten Voices, which will be published by Candlewick this fall. Mitali Perkins was born in Kolkata (Calcutta), India, and lived in Ghana, Cameroon, London, New York, and Mexico before moving to California when she was 11.
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