EPL Picks - Adult Graphic Novels - Coming of Age
Annotation:When she moved back into her parents home after travelling abroad, a three-month visit turned into two years struggling to find her feet.
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Annotation:Three interrelated stories about a boy coming to terms with his Chinese American heritage.
Annotation:Lester, a 10-year-old orphan, has a lonely life on his uncle's farm until he meets a kindred spirit.
Annotation:A collection of semi-autobiographical funny and painful stories about growing up with mixed heritage in the USA.
Annotation:A lyrical tale of a young man caught in the turbulence of the civil rights movement and the systematic homophobia of the America South of the 1960s.
Annotation:The line between novel and memoir is blurred in this story of a summer in a 17-year-old boy’s life between high school and college. His feelings of depression and aimlessness are countered by feeling good about belonging to his peer group.
Annotation:Paul, 18, lands a last-minute job at a camp for underprivileged children in Quebec. He’s not used to roughing it and he’s not used to kids, but over the course of the summer he learns about his own strengths, discovers the charms of 9- to 14-year-olds, and falls in love with a co-counselor. Sequel: Paul Moves Out.
Annotation:An evocative story of first love and of two brothers coming of age in a Christian fundamentalist family in rural Wisconsin.
Annotation:After years of being inseparable best friends, two young women grow apart as they come of age after high school.
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We grow up in different circumstances, but everyone must make the transition from child to adult. LP/MNJ
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