A review by robertrivasplata
Animal Crackers by Gene Luen Yang

4.0

These two related stories have all my favorite elements of Yang's later work, but they just don't quite go as far off the deep end as Boxers & Saints or American Born Chinese (or the Shadow Hero, but the crazy twist in that one is reality, so maybe it doesn't count). It's two coming of age stories, involving secret societies, special powers, & higher powers. The ending felt a little inadvertently ambiguous, and could have used some more deliberate ambiguity (or maybe it was deliberate?).