By Margaret E. Ikeda

Margaret E. Ikeda is an illustrator in Brooklyn, New York. In addition to A Tree Grows in Brooklyn , she also recommends Hester by Margaret Oliphant, The Summer Book by Tove Jansson, the Enola Holmes mysteries by Nancy Springer, and Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor.

  1. Setting: A conference room in a Brooklyn hospital. There is a circle of chairs, but only two have women sitting in them, making introductions. One woman is 31, fat, with an Alternative Lifestyle Haircut, and biracial: Margaret E.I. The other woman is 18, thin, white with bobbed brown hair, and wears a remarkably preserved vintage dress. Also...she seems to be  flickering in and

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