Though repetition of facts and dialogue (including the brothers’ penchant for calling each another “Booger”) at times thwarts the narrative flow, its pace accelerates in the final chapters as Lai adds a few surprise ingredients to concoct a deeply satisfying ending for this heartwarming immigrant story about sibling bonds, honesty, and surmounting obstacles. BOOKS - REMY LAI PIE IN THE SKY FLY ON THE WALL PAWCASSO Surviving the Wild GHOST BOOK Australian Readers, Click Here Barnes and Noble Amazon Audiobook LIBRO FM PIE IN THE SKY (middle grade prose/ graphic novel hybrid) A middle-grade graphic novel/prose hybrid. Jingwen vows to make the 12 cakes, believing this will preserve his memories of Papa-and that “cakes make everything better.” But his baking obsession leads to the betrayal of his hardworking mother’s trust, landing him and Yanghao in hot water. Summoning memories of baking with Papa, Jingwen imagines the cakes they’d anticipated selling at Pie in the Sky, the bakery they planned to open upon moving. Pie in the Sky by Remy Lai Purchased at Barnes & Noble In one of many memorable metaphors from Pie in the Sky, almost twelve-year-old narrator Jingwen recalls his favorite times with his family - rare Sunday beach trips when he and his younger brother, Yanghao, would collect seashells, giving them to their mother to hold, weighing down her pockets. The boy mourns the loss of his father and feels like an alien among his fifth-grade classmates as he struggles to learn English, which sounds like “Martian words” (blue-tinged illustrations show others, then the boys, as space aliens in their daily life).
Lai centers her incisive illustrated novel debut on Jingwen, who moves from his unspecified home country to Australia with his mother and younger brother Yanghao after his father’s death.
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