Almost American Girl #[nn]

Robin Ha's illustrated memoir captures that particular feeling of being the new face in a room full of strangers — the cover shows a bespectacled young woman clutching books and glancing back over her shoulder, surrounded by a classroom of watchful, somewhat distant peers rendered in cool blue tones. The radiating lines behind her give the composition a quiet intensity, as if the whole world is focused on this one moment of standing apart. A genuinely moving graphic memoir from 2020 that promises an honest, personal look at identity, belonging, and finding your place between two cultures.