Thi writes of moving with her husband from New York to California to raise her son with her husband Travis, in order to be closer to her parents. The graphic form, meanwhile, rewards and bolsters Thi’s often quite appropriately austere prose. Early on, for instance, two of her siblings are drawn as shadows in a panel that introduces the family, naturally leading the reader to wonder what happened to them. Thi’s spare, evocative prose and drawings together become greater than the sum of their parts. “But I fear that around them, I will always be a child… and they a symbol to me-two sides of a chasm, full of meaning and resentment.” “I am now older than my parents were when they made that incredible journey,” she writes. Thi’s memoir is partly the result of her exploration into trying to get to know her parents better as an adult and a mother herself.
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