Blankets, American Born Chinese

Over the break, to be precise on Saturday. I finished reading these two books. I was pumped up because Blankets was among the top 2 best graphic novels and American Born Chinese was another award winner. Don't let the voluminous size of Blankets deter you. It has too many blank pages and its very sparsely written. The prosaic story is about Author's tryst with religion and his first love. I am not sure why the people were raving about this book. Its just self loathing.
The gist of American Born Chinese is if you try to fit in society you have trouble. What you learn from monkey king is that no matter how good you are if you are born monkey just behave as monkey. The high pt is the organization of the book. There are three unrelated stories going on and suddenly you realize its just one story. Of course like Blankets it has great graphics but what values and morals are these two best sellers likely to inculcate? I am not sure if the author of blanket has that in mind. Its just his melancholy story of growing up.American born Chinese will only reinforce stereotype of new immigrants.