I had fun reading this story. Part of why I read it is because African folklore has always intrigued me and I wanted to read new tales that I hadn’t learned before. This is a modern take on the Ananse the Spider tale and follows a Ghanaian American girl who is known for telling outlandish but true stories that no one believes. Her parents sent her back to their hometown so she can better connect with her culture and a larger adventure unfolds with her meeting the infamous Ananse the Spider. I think this story did a good job bringing a lot of cultural facets of Ghana and Africa as a whole to light and shedding light on the history of colonization and it’s modern manifestation in a creative way. Only one star off because I felt there were a few plot holes in this and the story felt a little more convoluted than it needed to be (if it’s intended for middle school students after all). It’s also made a bit hard to follow when some pages don’t have much text and others have walls of text from only one or two speakers. But the visual graphics are neat and it’s a good quick story  to read through in a day