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emotional
hopeful
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
This wordless graphic novel has such a beautiful illustrative style that makes me nostalgic for the picture book illustrators of my youth, especially Chris Van Allsburg. Tan does a great job of creating the sense of unease for the reader caused by not understanding what's on the page--the exact feelings the immigrant man feels in the story. It's a hopeful book about how the fear of the unfamiliar, as well as hostility toward the different, can crack open and reveal new homes and new friends.
Moderate: Xenophobia
Minor: Abandonment, Genocide, Slavery, and War
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