Jamie Jo Hoang in My Father, The Panda gives a hard, sometime difficult to comprehend story of generational trauma. There are several triggering topics, just to be up front: abuse, animal abuse, suicide, racism. These topics are not glorified or treated in a flippant manner, but I did want to be up front.

Jane often wonders why her father is the way he is. She loves him, but is tired of the way he treats her. Daughter of a Vietnamese immigrant, Jane does as much as she can to distance herself and deny her Vietnamese heritage and parts of herself, until she begins to put together the pieces of her family's heritage from before her father went through unspeakable horrors as a refugee fleeing Vietnam to the United States to where they are right now with Jane preparing to go to UCLA.

A heartbreaking, yet hopeful look at the ravages of war and its effects on the generation in the war and those that follow.

This is an honest review; the opinions are all mine. I'd like to thank NetGalley and Crown Books for Young Readers for the e-ARC.