Publishers Weekly Rights Report
Week of June 4, 2018
Simon Boughton, in his first purchase at Norton Young Readers, has bought Paula Yoo’s debut YA nonfiction book about Vincent Chin, a Chinese American whose beating death at the hands of two white autoworkers in Detroit in 1982 galvanized the Asian American civil rights movement. The book is slated for publication in 2020; Tricia Lawrence at Erin Murphy Literary brokered the deal for North American rights.
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