Hanna wants nothing more than to go to school and make a friend, so she’s delighted when her dad decides to settle and set up shop in LaForge in the American heartlands. But Hanna is half Chinese — which complicates matters, in a place where non-whites are viewed with suspicion and prejudice. However, with quiet determination, humour and grace, Hanna sets out to win the townspeople’s hearts, and their admiration, with her feisty spirit and her talent for dressmaking. This moving, award winning historical novel highlights incidents from the Korean American author’s youth, , and will resonate with anyone who has ever felt like the odd one out.