Laura Gao
Author of Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American
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Gao’s story is an American story of identity formation in a land of immigrants, though it also reveals the extra structural barriers that face immigrants. She discusses her conflicted feelings of identity as she tried to balance her heritage, her new home, and figure out who she was within both. Gao’s art brilliantly illustrates her story, using expressions and color to bring her memoir to vivid life. A great read that’s all too relevant given the rise of anti-Asian racism since the pandemic.… (more)