Keshni Kashyap,Mari Araki
In the tradition of ,Persepolis ,and ,American Born Chinese,, a wise and funny high school heroine comes of age. ,Tina M., sophomore, is a wry observer of the cliques and mores of Yarborough Academy, and of the foibles of her Southern California intellectual Indian family. She's on a first-name basis with Jean-Paul Sartre, the result of an English honors class assignment to keep an â€œexistential diary.â€ ,Keshni Kashyapâ€™s compulsively readable graphic novel packs in existential high school dramaâ€”from Tina getting dumped by her smart-girl ally to a kiss on the mouth (Tinaâ€™s mouth, but not technically her first kiss) from a cute skateboarder, Neil Strumminger. And it memorably answers the pressing question: Can an English honors assignment be one fifteen-year-old girlâ€™s path to enlightenment? 
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Tina's Mouth: An Existential Comic Diary