![]() ![]() Leigh, who is half Asian and half white, travels to Taiwan to meet her maternal grandparents for the first time. ![]() Leigh Chen Sanders is absolutely certain about one thing: When her mother died by suicide, she turned into a bird. The blurb for this book does a pretty good job of explaining its premise, so I’ll spare you my awkward attempts at summarizing: It took some processing, and while I expected it to be good, it was even more devastating than I expected a book about a girl and drawing and a magical bird and mental illness and suicide and family and friendship to be. I needed to get to the end, because I knew I wouldn’t sleep well if I went to bed in that emotional state. But it brought up some really vivid memories and deeply intense feelings of pain and sadness that I thought I was past by now. It wasn’t because it was a page-turner truly, I wanted to go to sleep and resume it in the morning. I must admit, I had to stay up two hours past when I planned to go to bed in order to finish this one. In four words, this book is: beautiful, painful, vibrant, and important. Genre: young adult, contemporary, magical realism, fantasy ![]()
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