How can you end a book like that! Seriously. At first this book was a little slow. The reader follows Micro who is not very popular, small, and shy. The year is 1989. You don’t really know that until the end. This is just a “normal” look at a boy in East Germany before the wall falls. There are many pages with few or no words but the illustrator does a great job telling you what is going on. Micro does make a friend, but the friend has a few problems. He pretends to be tough when really he is just scared. I was amazed at how popular Ping Pong was. I didn’t realize so much was missing in East Germany until they get to cross over to the west, and see the difference in the two communities. In the end I really liked this book (except for that ending). I wanted more, and wanted to see what happened to the friendship. The ending was just so abrupt and out there. And, I learned more from the info bits at the end that explain things in the graphic novel the reader may not know about then I did in my years of schooling.
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