the lone castaway looks around the shore

and helping others

Surviving Octagon Valley may require these outcasts to embrace their inner weird and become greater together than they ever could separately

the book commands and stands up to repeated readings

Halfway There: A Graphic Memoir of Self-Discovery Kat Yuen the lone castaway looks aroundA poignant young adult graphic memoir that follows one teen's year abroad in Japan, as she seeks to reconcile both sides of her biracial identity. Christine has always felt she is just half: Half American, half Japanese. As a biracial Japanese American who was born in Tokyo but raised in the US, she knows all too well what its like to be a part of two different worlds but never feeling as though you belong to either. Now on the brink of adulthood,