It's important that we understand what refugee families have sacrificed and endured to make it to a safe place to raise their family and just to live and survive. This is a graphic novel of a family in the 1970's living in Vietnam and how things become dangerous for them. It's the story of a girl and her family making the journey to a new world, America and adapt to a different culture and time. Now she's a grown woman, married and just gave birth to her first child. It's a time to step in to her mother's shoes and see her mother differently. It's brilliant. We need these stories. I'm also pairing this with another book I'm reading, Tigerfish. This too is the story of another refugee, also leaving with her family from Vietnam. We must treasure these stories they are part of the global history that so many other families share.
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