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Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese-American by Laura Gao

sarahav47's review

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adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

5.0

bec1182's review

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funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

5.0

ari76's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

3.75

shainabriley's review

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fast-paced

4.0

lydiathedragon's review

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emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.0

eyelit's review

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emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.0

kylas_library's review

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5.0

This graphic novel memoir was rlly good!! I love books from cultural perspectives that I don’t necessarily relate to bcuz I get to learn smthn new about the way that other people live that is different from mine. It was especially interesting to see the different perspective during the pandemic, with the author being from Wuhan. I do wish that it had dipped a little bit more into that.
Some of the artwork scenes are SO GOOD ???!! All of the ones with the rabbit ARE SO COOL!

camillaelizabeth's review

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5.0

Added this book to my shelf of favorites last year. I loved it so much.

lawbooks600's review against another edition

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3.0

5/10, this was a terrible graphic memoir, the main characters were just unlikable, the art style needed some improvement, and the lesbian romance felt so empty, I didn't feel anything for Laura and her girlfriend. Also felt like just an ordinary memoir, events such as COVID, moving to America, or the main character being Wuhanese just didn't make this memoir distinct enough from other ones. The speech bubble formatting was terrible as well, who illustrated this?

tannithreece's review

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informative reflective fast-paced

4.25