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The Shadow Hero

by Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew

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"With warm, funny storytelling and fantastic art, Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew team up to give a character from the Golden Age of comics a worthy origin story. Hank Chu’s happy life is turned upside down when his mother has an encounter with the Anchor of Justice, a popular superhero. She becomes determined to make a superhero of her son by any means necessary — until tragedy strikes their family. To protect his loved ones, Hank invites an ancient turtle spirit to live in his shadow. It’s up to Hank, calling himself The Green Turtle, to take down Ten Grand, the mysterious crime boss who runs Chinatown."
NPR Books We Love — 2014 · apps.npr.org