When asked the question “what are you?”, what would you say? What if you had two choices, which one would you choose? The book Yell-oh Girls by Vickie Nam is about Asian-American girls and their difficult, strange, and confused experiences with there native cultures and the differences between the two cultures. The structure of the book is very much different from several books I've read, such as the cover, the table of contents, and the authors biography. It has a very unique touch to it.
The cover of the book is a very interesting cover. Usually non-fictional books are easy to identify, however this book doesn't seem like it. On the cover is a large title Yell-oh Girls and underneath that is lunch box with Southeast Asian food and above the title is female Asian yelling “Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity, and Growing Up Asian American”, along with a bright green background. The cover designed makes it more desirable to read.
Including a modicum about the author with her picture. This portion is located on the back of the book, where it talks about her success in several jobs she was attained. The picture is not one of those prepared-author-portrait photos, but it's a picture of her being herself.
This book doesn't have those award-winning New York Times reviews however, there are reviews from other authors. The reviews are found on the first page of the book right before the title page. Instead of putting this in the first page, this could have been on the back of the book and the authors photo and biography could have been on the first page.
The table of contents is the most peculiar part of the book. It is the skeleton of the order the chapters go. It's not really chapters rather topics with small essays and poems coalesced under it. Also with each short essay or poem is the writer's name and age. That is an actually very strange for a table of content. In my opinion I think that Nam should have not put the writers full name even though she might have gotten their approbation to do so.
Conclusively, the structure of the book might be different, but it makes it much more amusing to read.
The cover of the book is a very interesting cover. Usually non-fictional books are easy to identify, however this book doesn't seem like it. On the cover is a large title Yell-oh Girls and underneath that is lunch box with Southeast Asian food and above the title is female Asian yelling “Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity, and Growing Up Asian American”, along with a bright green background. The cover designed makes it more desirable to read.
Including a modicum about the author with her picture. This portion is located on the back of the book, where it talks about her success in several jobs she was attained. The picture is not one of those prepared-author-portrait photos, but it's a picture of her being herself.
This book doesn't have those award-winning New York Times reviews however, there are reviews from other authors. The reviews are found on the first page of the book right before the title page. Instead of putting this in the first page, this could have been on the back of the book and the authors photo and biography could have been on the first page.
The table of contents is the most peculiar part of the book. It is the skeleton of the order the chapters go. It's not really chapters rather topics with small essays and poems coalesced under it. Also with each short essay or poem is the writer's name and age. That is an actually very strange for a table of content. In my opinion I think that Nam should have not put the writers full name even though she might have gotten their approbation to do so.
Conclusively, the structure of the book might be different, but it makes it much more amusing to read.
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