The Legend of Auntie Po

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The Legend of Auntie Po, Shing Yin Khor. YA graphic novel set in a California logging camp in 1885, where a 13-year-old Chinese girl, Mei, helps her father cook for the loggers. It's about family and friendship and immigration and history and folktales and it made me tear up and there are maps and labeled logging tools and it's SO GOOD. Mei had moments where she reminded me of Amy from Amy Unbounded, as a character, and in how she's drawn and moves on the page, and in how her POV is a window into a world realized in detail, so, highly recommended if you were a fan. Or if you liked Queen of the Sea, or The Magic Fish. (Probably not enough of a supernatural element to count as SFF, which I mostly mention as a note to my future self going back through my comics tag looking for Hugo noms...)