Graphic novels where text and images are woven perfectly together prove the adage that a picture is worth a thousand words. Emily Bowen Cohen's Two Tribes is most definitely such a book.
Mia misses her Muscogee father and community. But her divorced mother treats him as a taboo topic, a being no longer part of their life. She's married a Jewish man and is embracing and expecting Mia to share her enthusiasm for their new Jewish identity.
But the yearning to see her father and learn more about her community and herself won't go away. So Mia uses her bat mitzvah money to travel back to her dad...
...and stirs up much more trouble than she'd anticipated.
On a purrrsonal note, all week the meteorologists and other news personalities had building major hype about the day long blizzard due the day before Valentines. Blizzard eve it was the BIG topic: would we have a snow day? We did and savored it. Now the next BIG STORM is due tomorrow. My church has canceled not only the in person service, but the zoom service. They're anticipating power outages. We'll just have to see what happens.
A great big shout out goes out to Eugene and the other blizzard battlers and the power company people who are essential heroes when we get a big one.
Jules Hathaway
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