This is one of those books that makes you cry, the pain is so real, and so hard to take. The bullying that Sarah goes through in school, and in life, is horrific, and she reaches breaking points when she launches out, which is to be understood.

The story is that Sarah is adopted from South Korea by white couple, who try their best to make her feel she is part of their family, since she is. There is even a point where she has to go to an International festival that the girl scouts are putting on, so she dresses like the German background that her parents are from. And of course she is teased about that, because that isn’t Asian.

The two things that give her happiness are drawing anime and manga, and going to conventions. There she can be who she wants to be. She loves to Cosplay.

The really hard part for me was when the school decided to just ignore obvious bullying and racism. They just didn’t want to admit that it was happening.

Really well done, to get that deep into her history, and her story, and present it with all the horror that it was. Sometimes writing things like this is cathartic, and I hope the author felt that way, and from her notes at the end, it sounds as though she is in a much better space now, twenty years on.

<em>Thanks to Netgalley for making this aviaalbe for an honest review.</em>

I loved this book! Though rooted in the author's specific experiences, this graphic memoir speaks to the truths of what it feels like to be othered your whole life.