The Only Child

The Only Child

2015 • 113 pages

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Inspired by Guojing's experience growing up under China's one-child policy, this haunting debut, a wordless graphic journey unfolding in panels drawn in the gentlest pencil, creates a sense of pure magic as a small girl toddles away from home to visit her grandmother and finds protection and joy in unexpected places.


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The art is pretty and dream-like. Plot-wise, I was unimpressed.

June 30, 2023
  1. Stars. Hands. Down.

    One of those few books that hits you in the gut with feels. And when mere pictures can be more vivid than video, and more descriptive than words.
November 22, 2019

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