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Sihpromatum - I Grew my Boobs in China
by Savannah Grace
Reminiscent of [b:Lost in Moscow|1953760|Lost in Moscow A Brat in the USSR|Kirsten Koza|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1347791123s/1953760.jpg|1956687]: Savannah was about the same age as Kirsten Koza when her mother dropped a bomb on her comfortable, middle-class Canadian life: her mother had decided to take Savannah, her older sister, and one of their older brothers on a year-long backpacking trip.
It's a lighthearted, poke-fun-at-self sort of read, which works really well for the book. Rather than taking a serious tone, Savannah makes herself and each of her family members into a sort of caricature: her brother is the planner and lecturer of the group (serving the dual purpose of getting a lot of cultural/historical information to the reader), her sister is energetic and ditzy, her mother is a benign positive force, and Savannah is the whining youngest. That sounds like a negative, but it's not; it makes for a much more playful, self-aware book than if Savannah took them all super seriously. It also gives her (as an author) a chance to subtly highlight the prejudices she held and ways she, you know, learned better.
This is only the beginning of the story. The trip was originally planned to take a year, but per the book description it lasted four(!), and this book covers only the first couple of months in China and Mongolia. It'll probably take me a while to get around to [b:Backpacks and Bra Straps|23119958|Backpacks and Bra Straps (Sihpromatum #2)|Savannah Grace|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1409226913s/23119958.jpg|42669151], but I'd like to see where this story goes.
It's a lighthearted, poke-fun-at-self sort of read, which works really well for the book. Rather than taking a serious tone, Savannah makes herself and each of her family members into a sort of caricature: her brother is the planner and lecturer of the group (serving the dual purpose of getting a lot of cultural/historical information to the reader), her sister is energetic and ditzy, her mother is a benign positive force, and Savannah is the whining youngest. That sounds like a negative, but it's not; it makes for a much more playful, self-aware book than if Savannah took them all super seriously. It also gives her (as an author) a chance to subtly highlight the prejudices she held and ways she, you know, learned better.
This is only the beginning of the story. The trip was originally planned to take a year, but per the book description it lasted four(!), and this book covers only the first couple of months in China and Mongolia. It'll probably take me a while to get around to [b:Backpacks and Bra Straps|23119958|Backpacks and Bra Straps (Sihpromatum #2)|Savannah Grace|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1409226913s/23119958.jpg|42669151], but I'd like to see where this story goes.