"Artfully stitched together from the author's own imaginings, reimaginings, and memories as a child raised on food stamps and forced into ESL classes while continuously being shuttled from one public housing address to the next, this remarkable picture book is a love letter to survivors that is sure to resonate with readers of all ages"-- Provided by publisher.

"This wonderful book by Saymoukda Vongsay, beautifully illustrated by Cori Nakamura Lin, is about the details of our [Southeast Asian] humanity: the much desired but unhealthy snacks, the jobs with odd hours our parents took, the un-ironic bowl cuts and the ESL classes and haggling with aunties at the farmer's market. Translating for our parents, and trading food from food shelves to save face. All these negotations that add up to our survival. With flowing yet anchored language and precise illustration, this book is a much needed intervention against the erasure of working class Southeast Asian life, and a celebration of it. This too is a Minnesota story. This too is an American story. This too is a human story"-- Foreword.