Tween Awakening
This unbearably lovely and trenchant graphic novel is also a call-to-arms.
By A.K. SummersJanuary 5, 2016
This One Summer by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki. First Second. 320 pages.
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LARB Contributor
A.K. Summers is the author and artist of the graphic memoir Pregnant Butch (2014 Soft Skull Press-Counterpoint), which was nominated for a 2015 Lambda Literary Award and included in the 2015 Best American Comics Notable Comics list.
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