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Genre/Form: | Graphic novels Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, Young Adult Literature: Winner Bildungsromans Juvenile works Fiction Juvenile fiction Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse |
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Material Type: | Fiction, Secondary (senior high) school |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Keshni Kashyap; Mari Araki |
ISBN: | 9780618945191 0618945199 |
OCLC Number: | 666239956 |
Awards: | Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature (APAAL), Young Adult Literature Winner, 2012-2013 |
Description: | 242 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Responsibility: | Keshni Kashyap ; illustrated by Mari Araki. |
Abstract:
In the tradition of Persepolis and American Born Chinese, a wise and funny high school heroine comes of age. Tina M., sophomore, is a wry observer of the cliques and more of Yarbvvorough Academy, and of the foibles of her Southern Californiai intellectual Indian family. She's on a first-name basis with Jean-Paul Sartre, the result of an English honors class assignment to keep an "existential diary." Keshni Kashya's compulsively readable graphic novel packs in existential high school drama - from Tina getting dumped by her smart-girl ally to a kiss on the mouth (Tina's mouth, but not technically her first kiss) from a cute skateboarder, Neil Strumminger. And it memorably answers the pressing querstion: Can an English honors assignment be one fifteen-year-old girl's path to enlightenment? --
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