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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.
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"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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