Continental Drifter
Continental Drifter by Kathy MacLeod, published by First Second on April 2, 2024, is a 224-page exploration of identity and belonging. The narrative follows Kathy, who navigates her life between her Thai heritage and her American upbringing. Spending most of her year in Bangkok, she eagerly anticipates her family’s summer trips to a small seaside town in Maine, where she experiences the beauty of the landscape and the unique local cuisine.
Readers will find a poignant depiction of Kathy’s struggle to fit in as she grapples with her mixed cultural background. The book delves into themes of family, identity, and the search for belonging, reflecting on her experiences in both the United States and Thailand. With elements of biography and memoir, this work contributes to the broader discourse on Asian American and Pacific Islander experiences, offering insights into the complexities of growing up in two distinct worlds.
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Winner of the American Library Association’s Asian/Pacific American Award for Children’s Literature
With a Thai mother and an American father, Kathy lives in two different worlds. She spends most of the year in Bangkok, where she’s secretly counting the days till summer vacation. That’s when her family travels for twenty-four hours straight to finally arrive in a tiny seaside town in Maine.
Kathy loves Maine’s idyllic beauty and all the exotic delicacies she can’t get back home, like clam chowder and blueberry pie. But no matter how hard she tries, she struggles to fit in. She doesn’t look like the other kids in this
rural New England town. Kathy just wants to find a place where she truly belongs, but she’s not sure if it’s in America, Thailand . . . or anywhere.
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