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Gr 7-Up Tan captures the displacement and awe with which immigrants respond to their new surroundings in this wordless graphic novel. It depicts the journey of one man, threatened by dark shapes that cast shadows on his family's life, to a new country. The only writing is in an invented alphabet, which creates the sensation immigrants must feel when they encounter a strange new language and w...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

From a bleak, sunless city haunted by the threat of scaled and serpentine monsters, a man sets forth to seek a new life in a new land, leaving his wife and daughter behind. His steamship voyage with a host of refugees takes him to a strange shore indeed, a country with its own architecture, alphabet, technologies—even the pets look different. It's the triumph of this lavish yet somberly monochromatic wordless b...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Seeking a better life for his family, a man travels to a strange, unfamiliar country. It's the triumph of this lavish, sombe...Log In or Sign Up to Read More