Art's Reviews > Uprooted: A Memoir About What Happens When Your Family Moves Back

I received a free eARC of this graphic memoir from NetGalley in return for an honest review.

I have read more than one graphic memoir where a young person comes from a foreign country to the US. This was different. A young lady moving from Toronto to Hong Kong. While she was born in Canada, her parents were not. Her father got a job "back home" and her adventure began. Learning a new culture. Making new friends. Trying to figure out her life. This is interwoven with her father telling her the story of how his family had to flee from the Japanese and his birth under difficult circumstances. There is a lot of awkwardness, some good humor, the artwork fits the story well. It is one I would be happy to have in a middle school classroom library.