This book was sitting around our house as part of a collection DrSlump brought home from the Goodwill. One day I idly picked it up while waiting for something. Significant time went by. When I was interrupted, I said "Wow, this is really good!" and pushed the rest of my reading aside so I could finish this.

There are must be hundreds of memoirs written by people who were involuntary, unknowing immigrants to the USA, brought along as children by their parents. But I doubt that many of them are as vivid and compelling as this. At the age of five, Mar and her mother left Hong Kong to join her father in Denver, and she began her fight to find her own place, somewhere between her family's tradition and her new culture. Not a new nor unique story, but I predict that once you start reading, you'll be as enthralled as I was.

But that's just one person's opinion. Future readers, what do YOU think of this story?

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As stated by a previous journaler, this book is hard to put down. Mar tells her story of being an immigrant from Hong Kong to America at a young age. She struggles to "fit in" at school when she doesn't understand the language or culture. She is bullied and made fun of by the other childre because she looks and is different. She clashes with her parents, particularly her mother, who want her to follow her traditions and culture which are so different from what she is experiencing at school.

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