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Shing Yin Khor is an Ignatz-
winning cartoonist and installation
artist who is exploring personal
narrative, new human rituals,
and collaborative worldbuilding
through graphic memoir, science
fiction, and large-scale art structures.
As a cartoonist, their work has been
published in The Toast, The Nib,
Catapult, Huffington Post, and Bitch
magazine. They make the road-trip
adventure comic Tiny Adventure
Journal and the tender queer
science fiction comic Center for
Otherworld Science. Shing
lives in Los Angeles.

Copyright © 2019 by Shing Yin Khor
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Khor, Shing Yin, author.
Title: The American dream? : a journey on Route 66 discovering dinosaur statues, muffler men, and the perfect
breakfast burrito / by Shing Yin Khor.
Description: Minneapolis : Zest Books, [2019] | Audience: Ages: 11–18. | Audience: Grades: 9–12. |
Identifiers: LCCN 2018060700 (print) | LCCN 2019003990 (ebook) | ISBN 9781541578531 (eb pdf) | ISBN
9781541578524 (lb : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781942186373 (pb : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Khor, Shing Yin—Travel—Comic books, strips, etc.—Juvenile literature. | United States Highway
66—Description and travel—Comic books, strips, etc.—Juvenile literature. | Asian American women—Travel—
Comic books, strips, etc.—Juvenile literature. | Immigrants—United States—Biography—Comic books, strips,
etc.—Juvenile literature. | Asian American women artists—Biography—Comic books, strips, etc.—Juvenile
literature.
Classification: LCC F595.3 (ebook) | LCC F595.3 .K46 2019 (print) | DDC 917.804/34—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018060700
Manufactured in the United States of America
1-46974-47843-1/9/2019