One Potato Review

A story of reincarnation, yes, like It’s a Wonderful Life is a story about an angel getting his wings. Like George Bailey, this Tibetan farmer dreams of traveling the world, but must instead content himself with barely getting by in all of the ordinary ways. Courtesy of a booming, Buddhist voice in the heavens he gets to pick his next life, and finds himself incrementally drawn to all of his old circumstances but one. The text is plainspoken, and Gerstein’s illustrations so whimsical and panoramic, that through all of the supernatural intrusion, the end arrives strangely uplifting, no matter how many times you think you’ve seen it.