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.
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.
