Saints (Boxers & Saints, #2)

by Gene Luen Yang

From American Born Chinese author Gene Luen Yang: an innovative look at China's Boxer Rebellion told from two points of view, in two companion volumes. China, 1898. An unwanted fourth daughter, Four-Girl isn't even given a proper name by her family. She finds friendship - and a name, Vibiana - in the most unlikely of places: Christianity. But China is a dangerous place for Christians. The Boxer Rebellion is murdering Westerners and Chinese Christians alike. Torn between her nation and her Christian friends, Vibiana will have to decide where her true loyalties lie...and whether she is willing to die for her faith.

• ISBN10: 1596436891
• ISBN13: 9781596436893
• Publish Date: 10 September 2013
• Publish Status: Active
• Out of Print: 5 April 2024
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
• Imprint: First Second
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 176
• Language: English

Reviews

[layawaydragon]

I love Gene Luen Yang's work. It always hooks me right away, keeps me wondering, and sticks with me long after finishing. Saints is no different.

I felt so bad for Four-Girl! And I was really hoping for a different end, even though I knew better. I honestly wasn't expecting the prologue at all though.

Like I said for Boxers, this is a much better way to learn about history, IMHO.

No matter what's next for Luen Yang, I can't wait to read it!

[wcs53]

This is the companion book to Boxers, which I just read a couple of days ago. It tells the same story as that book, but from the perspective of someone on the other side. The narrator in this story is a young girl, the unwanted fourth daughter, who embraces the foreign God of Christianity in her own kind of way. Like in Boxers, the story takes place in the shadow of the Boxer rebellion. I enjoyed this one as much as the first one and it was interesting to see the same story from a different perspective. Both stories raise a lot of interesting questions in regards to such things as colonialism and religion, and it's intriguing to see the way that all sides are represented. Both of these graphic novels are worth checking out, but it would be advisable to read them close together to get the whole story.