Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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- £1.99
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Publisher Description
With just five dollars and a knapsack to her name, 15-year-old Harleen Quinzel is sent to live in Gotham City. She�s not worried, though-she�s battled a lot of hard situations as a kid, and knows her determination and outspokenness will carry her through life in the most dangerous city in the world. And when Gotham�s finest drag queen, Mama, takes her in, it seems like Harley has finally found a place to grow into her most �true true� with new best friend Ivy at Gotham High. But when Mama�s drag cabaret becomes the next victim in the wave of gentrification that�s taking over the neighborhood, Harley�s fortune takes another turn. Now Harleen is mad. In turning her anger into action, she is faced with two choices: join activist Ivy, who�s campaigning to make the neighborhood a better place to live, or team up with her anarchist friend Joker, who plans to take down Gotham one corporation at a time. From Eisner Award and Caldecott Honor-winning author Mariko Tamaki (This One Summer) and Eisner Award-nominated artist Steve Pugh comes a coming-of-age story about choices, consequences, and how a weird kid from Gotham goes about defining her world for herself.
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Harleen Quinzel pulls into Gotham as a broke teenage drifter in this tale of gentrification and class struggle. After being taken in by a drag queen called Mama, she begins to attend classes at Gotham High. Quickly making friends with ardent intersectional feminist Ivy, carefree Harley finds conflict with John Kane, the misogynistic head of the film club, and with his parents, unscrupulous developers set on gentrifying Harley's new neighborhood. When a mysterious figure, the Joker, enters the scene, his goals and methods seem initially in line with Harley's, but it's unclear whether he is trustworthy. Tamaki (This One Summer) neatly maps DC universe characters and their wealth, wits, and willingness to get their hands dirty to high school drama. Harley is a relatively breezy character whose questionable ethics often mirror those closest to her, and pairing her with a found family of drag queens and community organizers directs her chaotic whimsy toward a social justice bent. The diverse cast is depicted in a realistic, frenzied art style by Pugh (Hellblazer), whose dynamic illustrations are particularly suited to the story's stunning costumes and over-the-top dramatics. Ages 13 17.
