This is a wonderful, beautifully drawn memoir. Robin is the daughter of a single mother who struggled against South Korea's conservative society to create a happy life for their small family. The summer after 8th grade, Robin travels with her mother to Alabama on what she believes will be a two week trip at most. Shockingly, Robin's mother tells her that they will be moving permanently to America and that she is marrying a man Robin has never met. Robin is devastated- she didn't even get to say goodbye to her friends, and she didn't pack her art supplies or her extensive comic collection. She is thrown into an American high school even though she speaks very little English. Robin struggles to keep up in classes, finding comfort in one friendly teacher and the slow trickle of letters from South Korea. Eventually she is enrolled in an after school comics class and she makes her friend new friend. The last chapter follows Robin into young adulthood, when new realizations help her to finally understand why her mother made the decision that felt at the time like the end of her world.