• This is a beautiful and timely graphic novel for anyone age 12 and up.
• It has obvious parallels with the ongoing migrant crisis in the US, EU and elsewhere across the world.
• The book is based on a story in Compton s 1999 debut, 49th Parallel Psalm (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2013) about black migrant
• He revised it to reflect the plight of current migrant children.
• The main character in the book is a young woman of colour.