![]() Anya is a typical teenage girl: lonely, insecure, hormonal, and so much stronger than she gives herself credit for. While at first glance, Brosgols novel seems to merely focus. Brosgol's two-toned purple-and-black images have a bold, cartoony flair, underscoring her knack for comic timing and pacing, and making nearly every stance and facial expression her characters adopt at least a little bit funny. If what young readers desire is to see themselves reflected in the greater world, they need look no further than Vera Brosgols beautiful debut graphic novel, Anyas Ghost. its story and deals with the concept of being an. ![]() Brosgol's debut graphic novel taut, witty, and breezily paced seems to be heading in a very familiar direction, and then, abruptly, veers off toward a completely different and much more clever third act. ![]() ![]() Anya's the only one who can see Emily, of course, but Emily's excited enough to be out in the world again (via a tiny bone Anya carries around with her) that she offers to help her new pal out in all sorts of poltergeisty ways Anya, in return, resolves to try to solve the mystery of Emily's murder. Then she falls down a well and makes a friend: the very lonely ghost of a girl named Emily, who died there a hundred years before and can't leave her bones. ![]() She's embarrassed by her Russian- migr mom her little brother drives her bats she doesn't fit in at school she can't get the boy she likes to notice her and her only weapons are her sharp tongue and perpetual sneer. Anya Borzakovskaya is one frustrated, grouchy teenager. ![]()
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