OMG! I now know why everyone was talking about this book and it was up on so many “best of” lists. It deserves to be there.

Mira takes the reader on a journey through her life. A journey of being East Indian, a dark East Indian, in a world that prefers lighter skin. However, we don’t just see her life, we join in her conversations and the complexities of explaining race relations to a child living in a Trump nation. It’s something that can’t be explained away, but must be lived through. The timeline jumps around, but I think that helps the story have more impact. It’s what she was thinking about as her son asks the hard questions.

This work is fabulously done. The illustrations over real pictures, the way one drawn image represents multiple people of one race. It helps illustrate how some people think all people of a certain skin tones look alike. This book way moving and powerful. I think in time it will become as important a work as Maus, or Persepolis. It’s a view into the mind of someone living in a time where many are blind to the actions of our government and the ones who run it.
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