Tina's Mouth: An Existential Comic Diary by Kashyap, Keshni

ISBN: 0618945199

Author: Kashyap, Keshni

Condition: new

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 existential diary.Keshni Kashyaps compulsively readable graphic novel packs in existential high school drama-from Tina getting dumped by her smart-girl ally to a kiss on the mouth (Tinas 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 girls path to enlightenment?