Maizy Chen and her mother are off to Last Chance, Minnesota to visit Maizy's maternal grandparents. Her grandfather isn't doing well.
This book covers a lot of issues.
Oma and Maizy's mom have a lot of fights and drama.
Opa tells great stories, so about a third of the book is him telling Maizy stories about her ancestor who travelled from China to the US during the gold rush.
Maizy learns that her words for grandpa and grandma are actually German, not Chinese. And there's an interesting story why.
Maizy tries to repair the relationship between Opa and his old friend Werner.
Maizy experiences small white town racism. She and her family are the only Asians. They might be the only non-white people. I don't remember anyone else standing out as not white.
There's a mystery afoot, too.
Oh, and Maizy's mom was artificially inseminated. She doesn't know her dad and can't learn anything more about him til she's eighteen. Very unique family structure there.
This book was really fun. I think it could have been fleshed out in places, particularly with characters like Riley and Logan, but it still worked as it was.
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