Chasing the Feeling With John Cho

First Draft with Sarah Enni

First Draft Episode #349: John Cho

John Cho, actor, producer, writer, and author of debut middle grade novel, Troublemaker, with Sarah Suk.

Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:

• Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

• Fifth Chinese Daughter by Jade Snow Wong

• The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston

• Sarah Suk, author of Made in Korea and the forthcoming The Space Between Here and Now

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