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The Magic Fish By Trung Le Nguyen (Grades 7-9)

Trung Le Capecchi-Nguyen (Trung Le Nguyen, professionally) is an award-winning Vietnamese-American cartoonist, artist, and writer from Minnesota. He is also known as Trungles, has been a cartoonist for over 10 years, working on DC and Marvel comics, Adventure Time, The Sea is Ours, his own work and much more."The Magic Fish", which was published in 2020, is Trung Le Nguye's semi-biographical debut graphic novel. It follow the life of Tiến Phong as he navigates his life as a second generation American Vietnamese teenager. He is trying to help his mother learn english through fairy tales, all the while, he is struggling to tell her about his sexuality.