Walk Don't Run ★★★☆☆

Walk Don't Run: Growing Up Asian Seattle (Click Here To Buy)

★★★☆☆

Walk Don't Run: Growing up Asian in Seattle by Dale Hom is a graphic novella about a summer in Seattle 1961.

I checked this book out from the library and it is published by Third Place Press.

Wallace is 12 years old and growing up as a Chinese-American in Seattle. He talks about the Space Needle being built for the 1962 World's Fair, meeting Bruce Lee, and watching the Seattle Rainiers play baseball. Intermixed between these memories, Wallace experiences people yelling racial slurs at him and begins to wonder why all the Chinese and Japanese people live in Beacon Hill.

This book was a fun read but it was just too short. 58 pages and three chapters just wasn't enough to develop much more than a glimpse. As a person who lives in Seattle currently, I liked the glimpse tho!

If you liked Walk Don't Run, I also recommend these Seattle-based books - Where'd You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple, and Marbles by Ellen Forney, While the City Slept by Eli Sanders, and Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of Your Fist by Sunil Yapa.

happy reading.

Ms.Bjork