I’m a second-semester senior reading the last required novel for an English class in my high school career, and I’m disappointed. Not because I’ve read too many required books — 16 total. I enjoy reading. I’m disappointed because I never once saw my culture as a Vietnamese American, or any Asian cultures at all, represented in the required reading. If the universe was constructed out of my required reading novels, it’d officially be a white male Eurocentric bubble. To read more of this story, click the link in bio. #storybykatiemurphy #socialmediabymaggiekissick #photobyalexsajna #pagedesignbyaveryanderson