Listen, Slowly is an amazing book about culture and discovering ones roots. In this book, we follow Mai, a Laguna Beach girl with Vietnamese parents. Much to her annoyance, her parents make her go with her grandmother on a trip to Vietnam for obscure reasons. While at first she is constantly plotting ways to get herself airlifted home, after she is squeezed into life in her grandmothers village, where everyone is family, she begins to find connections, friends, culture... roots.
- Virginia, Grade 6, Amigos School
