Award-winning graphic novelist Gene Luen Yang takes on the historical turf of the Boxer Rebellion in turn-of-the-twentieth century China. Yang gracefully interweaves stories of two young people -- one on each side of the conflict -- to lay each group's motives bare. In doing so, he provides the reader with profound insights on how the foreign culture of Britain brought the hope of a better life to some, and destruction of everything familiar and holy to others. The ending, in which we see that the characters' lives are intertwined despite their differences, is particularly satisfying.