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Wendy Xu
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The Place We Once Called Home: A Comic

How do you mourn someone who is still alive, who might as well be a stranger now?


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Wendy Xu

A Brooklyn-based illustrator and comics artist, Wendy Xu is co-creator of Mooncakes (Oni Press, 2019). She is currently working on several children's graphic novels to be published by HarperCollins." 

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