Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American

Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American

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Publisher Description

“Messy Roots is a laugh-out-loud, heartfelt, and deeply engaging story of their journey to find themself--as an American, as the daughter of Chinese immigrants, as a queer person, and as a Wuhanese American in the middle of a pandemic.”—Malaka Gharib, author of I Was Their American Dream

After spending her early years in Wuhan, China, riding water buffalos and devouring stinky tofu, Laura immigrates to Texas, where her hometown is as foreign as Mars—at least until 2020, when COVID-19 makes Wuhan a household name.

In Messy Roots, Laura illustrates her coming-of-age as the girl who simply wants to make the basketball team, escape Chinese school, and figure out why girls make her heart flutter.

Insightful, original, and hilarious, toggling seamlessly between past and present, China and America, Gao’s debut is a tour de force of graphic storytelling.

  • GENRE
    Young Adult
    RELEASED
    2022
    March 8
    LANGUAGE
    EN
    English
    LENGTH
    272
    Pages
    PUBLISHER
    Balzer + Bray
    SELLER
    HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS
    SIZE
    288.8
    MB
    AUDIENCE
    Ninth Grade
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