![]() ![]() Saints by Gene Luen Yang is a graphic novel that examines life in China during the late 1800s in the context of the Boxer Rebellion. Four-Girl begins to have visions of Joan of Arc, and she believes that like Joan, she is called to do great things.īut when the Society of the Harmonious Fist surrounds the area she lives and threatens to kill all the Christians inside, Four-Girl must decide if she will stand with the Christians who have taken her in or against her countrymen. When life becomes too difficult in her home, she flees to a Christian orphanage for help. Her encounters with an acupuncturist in another village expose her to a foreign priest and other Chinese people who have converted to Christianity. No matter how she tries, her efforts go to waste. Four-Girl would like to win the approval of her grandfather, who as head of her clan has deemed her so unlucky that she is named only by her birth order. ![]()
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