Level up

Gene Luen Yang

About this book

Dennis, the son of Chinese immigrants, yearns to play video games like his friends and, upon his strict father's death, becomes obsessed with them but later, realizing how his father sacrificed for him, he chooses a nobler path.

Subjects

  • addictive behavior
  • asian americans
  • chinese americans
  • chinese americans, fiction
  • comic books, strips
  • comics & graphic novels, general
  • conduct of life
  • emigrants and immigrants
  • families
  • family life
  • fiction
  • gastroenterology
  • graphic novels
  • immigrants
  • juvenile fiction
  • medicine
  • new york times reviewed
  • parent-child relations
  • video games