I am a sucker for anything about China and this was about growing up in China during and after Mao. The author takes a small slice of her life and portrays it in this book. She actually had a sister because her mother was pregnant when the one child rule went into effect and they lived in the country. The children are raised to be community-oriented and really want to help China. She has the awakening about truly poor, needy people when her father takes her to visit her grandmother and cousins who really have nothing. Any American kid reading this book should talk about it with their parents because they may not really understand that kind of poverty.
It was a good Graphic Novel (I would have preferred a book) and was easy to read without a lot of jumping around the page. She is actually a hematologist and oncologist in the United States now and her husband did the graphics which are excellent.
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