Sisters: A Graphic Novel
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Publisher Description
Raina Telgemeier’s #1 New York Times bestselling, Eisner Award-winning companion to Smile!Raina can't wait to be a big sister. But once Amara is born, things aren't quite how she expected them to be. Amara is cute, but she's also a cranky, grouchy baby, and mostly prefers to play by herself. Their relationship doesn't improve much over the years, but when a baby brother enters the picture and later, something doesn't seem right between their parents, they realize they must figure out how to get along. They are sisters, after all.Raina uses her signature humor and charm in both present-day narrative and perfectly placed flashbacks to tell the story of her relationship with her sister, which unfolds during the course of a road trip from their home in San Francisco to a family reunion in Colorado.
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In this companion to Telgemeier's Smile, the graphic artist writes about her relationship with her younger sister, Amara, using a summer cross-country trip as narrative scaffolding as she examines the contrast between her childhood wish for a sister and life with a sibling she often can't fathom although Amara seems to have uncanny insight into her. "You ever feel like you just don't fit in?" Raina asks Amara at a family gathering full of contemptuous teenage cousins. "All the time," Amara replies. "The difference between you and me is, I don't care." Like Smile, it's an alternately poignant and laugh-out-loud funny account of pre-adolescence whose episodes range from small crimes (Raina lying to Amara so she doesn't have to share her art supplies) to acute crises (Amara's pet snake Mango on the loose in the family's VW Microbus). Underneath the immediate problems lies poignant uncertainty about the state of their parents' marriage. Though the artwork draws little attention to itself, Telgemeier's visual storytelling skills are well-honed, and readers will be left wishing for more. Ages 8 12.
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𝗜 𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝘀𝗼 𝗺𝘂𝗰𝗵. 𝗠𝘆 𝗯𝗿𝗼 𝗸𝗲𝗲𝗽𝘀 𝗯𝘂𝗹𝗹𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝘀𝗼 𝗺𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗲𝘀. 𝗕𝘁𝘄 𝗥𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮, 𝗜 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲. 𝗜 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗮𝗱 𝗯𝗿𝗼. 𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝗶𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗯𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗼. 𝗜 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗟𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗥𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮. 𝗟𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗯𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 (𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙗𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙮 𝙢𝙮 𝙛𝙖𝙫 𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙖𝙡𝙡). 𝗜 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯 𝗴𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗱𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗮/𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗼𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗺𝘆 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲. 𝗔𝗻𝘆𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝙋𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙜𝙞𝙧𝙡 𝙨𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙩𝙨!