The Story of Lee Set

Overview

Lee, living in Hong Kong, meets Matt, a fine young Scot. Their relationship becomes stronger by the day, despite their deep cultural differences. Will Lee and Matt's relationship successfully cross the cultural divide and overcome the negative odds? Volumes 1 and 2 are collected here in one specially priced set.

Reviews

Drawn with the iconic faces and screentones manga aficionados cherish, and written with a sensitivity to the passion of first love, The Story of Lee is a story to move any heart." -Teacher Librarian "Recommended

The cultural tension is beautifuilly written, and the story is told well in the small moments between Lee and Matt." - Library Media Connection

"There is much here to like. Lee is quite sympathetic and her straightforward romance with Matt is sweet and believable. Readers will look forward to the next volume in this gentle series." -VOYA

"Made me feel warm and fuzzy. [The authors'] familiarity with the turf wars gives this unpretentious East-meets-West, boy-meets girl story an easy, breezy sense of verisimilitude." -Andrew 'Capt. Comics' Smith, Scripps Howard News Service

"It's an old setup done effectively and believably. If anything, the story feels too true to life as Hong Kong, Korea, China, and Japan all have no shortage of aimless 20-something foreign men, many of them making ends meet teaching English and enjoying the occasional tryst with a local girl. Wilson and Kutsuwada's story tells such a tale from the girl's perspective, faithfully reproducing real Hong Kong locales. The artwork, particularly the characters, is crisp and expressive, and the story faithfully reproduces a believable slice of life." -Publishers Weekly

"Handles its appealing cross-cultural love story with a deft sweetness." -Bill Sherman, Blogcritics and Seattle Post Intelligencer "It's a solidly entertaining, quiet story of possible love and family entanglements." -Antick Musings

"A pretty strong outing. Young women should eat this one up." -cxPulp

"The fear of cultural imperialism, the dread of loss, the collapse of family, the still-prevalent and widespread sexism in both Eastern and Western society - big themes, but present in every intercultural love story. Chie Kutsuwada's delicate art and Sean Michael Wilson's frank script sum up the tensions in 'The Story of Lee'. This isn't just a book for teens, but something parents should read, both to remember their own years of surging hormones and thunderous emotions, and to understand the strange land their children inhabit." - Helen McCarthy, author of The Art of Osamu Tezuka.

Author Biography

Nami Tamura, manga artist from Japan, is now living in the United Kingdom. As a young artist, she received three prizes from the famous Japanese publishers Shogakukan and Kodansha, and she went on to work with Shogakukan on some of their weekly magazines. Sean Michael Wilson is a comic book writer from Scotland, now living in Japan. He has had many books published with a variety of US, UK and Japanese publishers, such as a graphic novel version of A Christmas Carol ('Best of 2008', Sunday Times), AX:alternative manga ('Best ten books of 2010', Publishers Weekly), Parecomic (with an introduction by Noam Chomsky), and an acclaimed manga version of the Japanese classic The Book of Five Rings.