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When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller
4.0

A slow start builds to a beautiful, heart-wrenching climax. I loved the interwoven threads of storytelling, reality, fantasy, belief, the immigrant experience, and Korean history and identity.

Fans of magic realism and of Grace Lin's Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, and Kelly Barnhill's The Girl Who Drank the Moon will love this story.