It is the early 1990s in Moscow, and political change is in the air. But 12-year-old Dasha is more worried about her own challenges as she negotiates family, friendships and school without her mother, who has left for America. Just as Dasha begins to find her own feet, she gets word that she is to join her mother in America — a place that seems impossibly far from everything and everyone she loves. This gorgeous and subtly illustrated middle-grade graphic novel signals the emergence of Dasha Tolstikova as a major new talent.