| Author | : Shing Yin Khor |
| File Size | : 45,7 Mb |
| Publisher | : Zest Books |
| Language | : English |
| Release Date | : 06 August 2019 |
| ISBN | : 9781942186373 |
| Pages | : 164 pages |
The American Dream by Shing Yin Khor Book PDF Summary
As a child growing up in Malaysia, Shing Yin Khor had two very different ideas of what “America” meant. The first looked a lot like Hollywood, full of beautiful people and sunlight and freeways. The second looked more like The Grapes of Wrath - a nightmare landscape filled with impoverished people, broken-down cars, barren landscapes, and broken dreams. Those contrasting ideas have stuck with Shing ever since, even now that she lives and works in LA. The American Dream? A Journey on Route 66 is Shing’s attempt to find what she can of both of these Americas on a solo journey (small adventure-dog included) across the entire expanse of that iconic road, beginning in Santa Monica and ending up Chicago. And what begins as a road trip ends up as something more like a pilgrimage in search of an American landscape that seems forever shifting, forever out of place.