American Born Chinese: First Impressions

Reading the first section of American Born Chinese was very interesting because it was my first graphic novel. The novel is told into three different stories. The first story is about a monkey king. There’s this little monkey who is king of his land and one day he gets an invite to a dinner party in the heavens. Sadly he finds out that the other gods actually don't want him around. The monkey therefore transforms himself into something higher up than a monkey and turns out to be evil. I am very  unsure of how a story about a monkey ties into the title “American Born Chinese”, but I guess once I finish the book I will understand. The next story is about a little boy named Jin who moves to a new school and has to deal with other kids being mean to him because of his race. He eventually makes a good friend, (who is also Chinese) and his life seemed to get better and revolve all around trying to get a girl. Similarly the last story is also about a boy, Danny, who is trying to get a girl. Danny, who is white, really likes a girl in his school and wants to date her and fit in at school but his very stereotypical Chinese cousin visits him and kind of ruins it for him. I am assuming all three stories will find a way to connect in the end, but I am very unsure how...