? Messy Roots is a laugh-out-loud heartfelt and deeply engaging story of their journey to
find themself--as an American as the daughter of Chinese immigrants as a queer person and as
a Wuhanese American in the middle of a pandemic.??Malaka Gharib author of I Was Their American
Dream After spending her early years in Wuhan China riding water buffalos and devouring
stinky tofu Laura immigrates to Texas where her hometown is as foreign as Mars?at least until
2020 when COVID-19 makes Wuhan a household name. In Messy Roots Laura illustrates her
coming-of-age as the girl who simply wants to make the basketball team escape Chinese school
and figure out why girls make her heart flutter. Insightful original and hilarious toggling
seamlessly between past and present China and America Gao's debut is a tour de force of
graphic storytelling.
