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Displacement by Kiku Hughes
5.0

Displacement is an absolutely stunning story of time travel in which a young biracial Japanese-American girl finds herself abruptly transporting back to the time her grandmother spent in US internment/incarceration camps. Kiku is a lovable narrator who's easy to sympathize with, and it's heart-breaking not only to watch her learn all of these tragic things she didn't know about her own grandmother, but also to watch her slowly come to terms with her own time in the internment camp, as she has no idea when or if she'll ever return to her own time. This is an incredibly sad, important story based on a painful truth that many in the US are far too content to forget these days, and I can't recommend this graphic novel highly enough.

Representation: All prominent characters are Japanese or white/Japanese biracial; Kiku and a side character are both queer girls.