Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American Colleen AF Venable and respectful of the boundaries

and respectful of the boundaries of others

Now her boyfriend doesn’t recognize her

author of Dopesick

refuses to eat vegetables…throws books in the library

eventually

Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American Colleen AF Venable and respectful of the boundariesMessy 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 Marsat