No Rules Tonight
A Graphic Novel
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
From the creators of Banned Book Club comes a young adult graphic novel about unveiling secrets, confessing your crushes, and finding yourself: all in the mountains of South Korea on Christmas Eve.
It's time for the annual winter camp at Anjeon University. A full weekend, deep in the mountains, with no parental supervision. But this is no ordinary getaway. It is 1980s South Korea where the police are always watching and even the slightest bit of self-expression can lead to arrest. Luckily, it's the only night of the year when generations of Koreans had no curfew, no obligations, and no rules: Christmas Eve.
In the snowy mountains, everyone has a different plan for their one night of freedom. Hyun Sook is trying to restart her banned book club but has to hide from a boy she suspects of being a spy. Taehee and Kiwoo are trying to build up the nerve to confess their feelings for one another, while Suji pines after her crush, ready to risk it all and finally tell someone the secret she's been hiding for her entire life.
Acclaimed creators Kim Hyun Sook and Ryan Estrada deliver a cinematic, hilarious, and heartfelt story about the universality of growing up, making friends, and falling in love.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
While living under a forceful totalitarian regime, a group of university students escape to the mountains for a night of freedom in this piercing graphic novel by Banned Book Club collaborators Kim and Estrada. In winter 1984, a 36-year curfew has come to an end in South Korea, and high school graduate Hyun Sook expects to start college "with more freedom than any teenager had been granted in generations." Yet things seemingly remain the same, with police limiting acts of self-expression. But Hyun Sook and her friends in the masked folk dance troupe find a loophole that allows them to perform satirical plays that poke fun at politicians. On Christmas Eve, the club retreats to Jiri Mountain, far from parental supervision, societal rules, and political drama. Each teen has their own plan for how to spend this "curfew-free night unlike the others," including Hyun Sook, who seeks to restart her defunct banned book club but must repel the attentions of a suspected spy. Sleek panels with comedic flourishes add levity and charm to memories, events, and secrets inspired by the author's personal experiences, bringing to life a night of romance, friendship, and change amid societal unrest and adolescent upheaval. Ages 12–up.
