Meilan Huas world is made up of a few key ingredients: her familys beloved matriarch, Nai Nai; the bakery her parents, aunts, and uncles own and run in Bostons Chinatown; and her favorite Chinese fairy tales. After Nai Nai passes, the family has a falling-out that sends Meilan, her parents, and her grieving grandfather on the road in search of a new home. They take a winding path across the country before landing in Redbud, Ohio. Everything in Redbud is the opposite of Chinatown, and Meilans not quite sure who she is - being renamed at school only makes it worse. She decides she is many Meilans, each inspired by a different Chinese character with the same pronunciation as her name. Sometimes she is Mist, cooling and invisible; other times, shes Basket, carrying her parents hopes and dreams and her guilt of not living up to them; and occasionally she is bright Blue, the way she feels around her new friend Logan. Meilan keeps her facets separate until an injustice at school shows her the power of bringing her many selves together.
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Weight: 476g
Dimensions: 149 x 217mm
Publication Date: 17 Aug 2021
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780593111284
About Andrea Wang
Andrea Wang is the award-winning author of the picture books The Nian Monster (Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Honor) Magic Ramen (Freeman Book Award Honor) and Watercress. The Many Meanings of Meilan is her debut middle-grade novel. The first character in Andreas Chinese name is an archaic one that means fragrant but her parents friends all thought it was the character for jade which sounds exactly the same. That sparked her lifelong interest in names and identity. Shed much rather be a rock than smelly. Andrea likes to write about family food and culture. She spent her childhood in Ohio and Boston and now lives in Colorado with her family.