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The basics: Halfway Home  is a graphic journal of Christine Mari Inzer's trip to Japan, the country where she was born. My thoughts:  I'm a huge fan of travel writing, so I was eager to read Halfway Home , the debut from Christine Mari Inzer, a teenage graphic memoirist. Inzer was born in Tokyo in 1997. Her family moved to the U.S. in 2003. In the summer she turned sixteen, she returned to Japan by herself to visit family and explore her roots. Halfway Home  transported me to Japan along with Inzer. It made me feel sixteen again, in the sense that she captures the good and the bad parts of being that age. Inzer's trip to Japan is unique, in that she is exploring both by herself and with family. As she explores alone, however, she also has advice from her father about where to go and what to see. Like so many travel journals, food is a big part of Halfway Home , and I quite enjoyed Inzer's depictions and descriptions of her meals. As I read her travel journal, I ...