![]() ![]() To cut to the chase, Shaun Tan’s graphic novel may be the very best possible way to share the immigrant experience with the second and third generations. This may be an overly long introduction to a book that has no words. Fortunately, they weren’t the first – others from the “old country” had come before, so there was some help to be had. ![]() And they needed help because things were done so differently here. It was hard to ask for help because they didn’t know the language. They say “zee,” not “zed.” And almost everyone I know seems to have a gun in their home. Small differences. My parents had to deal with much bigger ones, and for their parents it was stranger still. While I didn’t have to learn a new language, my children are going to learn an entirely different history. I am an immigrant of sorts, having moved across the border to the US, and while it was easy enough to adapt it did give me a small bit of insight into what my parents and grandparents must have experienced when they moved from the Netherlands to Canada decades ago. ![]()
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