"The simple yet expressive art style is charming and at times poignant, showing the family dynamics and the secrets locked within people’s hearts... A heartfelt story honestly and evocatively told." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review

This charming and relatable middle-grade graphic memoir is a winner of the American Library Association's Asian/Pacific American Award for Children’s Literature! Perfect for fans of Mexikid and Uprooted.

With a Thai mother and an American father, Kathy lives in two different worlds. She spends most of the year in Bangkok, where she’s secretly counting the days till summer vacation. That’s when her family travels for twenty-four hours straight to finally arrive in a tiny seaside town in Maine.

Kathy loves Maine’s idyllic beauty and all the exotic delicacies she can’t get back home, like clam chowder and blueberry pie. But no matter how hard she tries, she struggles to fit in. She doesn’t look like the other kids in this rural New England town. Kathy just wants to find a place where she truly belongs, but she’s not sure if it’s in America, Thailand . . . or anywhere.