ALT A graphic for the fic “Your Best American Boy” by archive of our own user hatsuna. The background image in this graphic is of Hatsuna’s father and his classmates at a sports festival in Japan in grade six. They are wearing white uniforms and red caps, laughing without a care in the world. Text overlays this image, reading “YOUR BEST AMERICAN BOY” and “ao3 hatsuna.”
![A quote from the article “The Stories We Tell, and Don’t Tell, About Asian-American Lives” by Hua Hsu, which Hatsuna includes at the beginning of her fic, Your Best American Boy. The quote reads, “What unites both generations [of Asian-Americans], Eng and Han suggest, is a kind of linguistic lack, a missing vocabulary—a paucity of stories that they might tell themselves about where they are going, and what it would mean to feel whole.”](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FgyIi9zUAAEAB9V.png?name=orig)
ALT A quote from the article “The Stories We Tell, and Don’t Tell, About Asian-American Lives” by Hua Hsu, which Hatsuna includes at the beginning of her fic, Your Best American Boy. The quote reads, “What unites both generations [of Asian-Americans], Eng and Han suggest, is a kind of linguistic lack, a missing vocabulary—a paucity of stories that they might tell themselves about where they are going, and what it would mean to feel whole.”
