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" Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet. So begins the story of this exquisite debut novel, about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee; their middle daughter, a girl...
"Engaging narrative voice, equal parts heartbreaking and hopeful."
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Thirteen-year-old Genesis tries again and again to lighten her black skin, thinking it is the root of her family's troubles, before discovering reasons to love herself as is.
"Powerful, vulnerable, candid memoir of the author finding the right balance of treatments for bipolar disorder. While this would have been a compelling enough story in prose, the graphic novel medium really brings to life the struggle to reconcile..."
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