A review by chachacenteno
Ichiro by Ryan Inzana

5.0

Illustrated in full page color, “Ichiro”, tells the story of an American-born, city kid visiting his grandfather in Japan. What starts as an emotional tangle of loyalty and war weaves into the story of Izanagi and Izanami, two of Japan’s greatest gods. As Ichiro straddles the world of folklore, loyalties and morality, he learns that behind all acts of wrong lies human weakness. Ichiro’s great-grandfather was a general in Japan during WWII, his father, a deceased American soldier. This book culturally resonates with Gene Yang’s “American Born Chinese.”