Halfway There: A Graphic Memoir of Self-Discovery

《在半路上：一部關於自我探索的圖像回憶錄》

一名少女在日本的一年交換生活，並試圖調和自己混血身份中的雙重面向。

克莉絲汀一直覺得自己只是「一半」：一半是美國人，一半是日本人。
作為一名在東京出生、在美國長大的日裔美國混血兒，她深知生活在兩個截然不同的世界裡，卻從未真正感覺自己屬於其中任何一個的困境。

如今，正處於成年邊緣的她，決定回到那個曾經稱為「家」的地方。
她踏上了一年的東京交換之旅，相信這裡才是她真正的歸屬。在多年感覺自己是局外人之後，這次她終於能變得完整了。

然而……東京並不是她想像中的答案。
克莉絲汀不僅沒能融入，反而更加「格格不入」，混血身份讓她以全新的方式感受到孤立。
她能做的，只有努力度過這一年，試著找到自我、弄清人生目標，以及是否能真正超越那「一半」的困境。

作者暨插畫家克莉絲汀·瑪麗（Christine Mari）在這部動人的敘述中，探索了失去與找回自我的過程，深刻詮釋了歸屬感與「家」的意義。

A poignant young adult graphic memoir that follows one teen's year abroad in Japan, as she seeks to reconcile both sides of her biracial identity.

Christine has always felt she is just half: Half American, half Japanese. As a biracial Japanese American who was born in Tokyo but raised in the US, she knows all too well what it’s like to be a part of two different worlds but never feeling as though you belong to either.

Now on the brink of adulthood, Christine decides it’s time to return to the place she once called home. So she sets forth on a year abroad in Tokyo, believing that this is where she truly belongs. After years of feeling like an outsider, now she will finally be complete. 

Except…Tokyo isn’t the answer she thought it would be. Instead of fitting in, Christine finds herself a fish out of water, as being half of two cultures isolates her in ways she'd never imagined. All she can do is try to stay afloat for the rest of the year—still figuring out who she is, what she wants in life, and whether she’ll ever truly be more than halfway there. 
 
Author-illustrator Christine Mari explores what it means to lose and find yourself in this moving narrative of belonging and home.