Skim is Kimberly Keiko Cameron, a not-slim, would-be Wiccan goth who goes to a private girls' school in the early '90s. When her classmate Katie Matthews is dumped by her boyfriend, who then kills himself possibly because he's (maybe) gay the entire school goes into mourning overdrive. It's a weird time to fall in love, but that's what happens to Skim when she starts meeting secretly with her neo-hippie English teacher, Ms. Archer. But then Ms. Archer abruptly leaves the school, and Skim has to cope with her confusion and isolation while her best friend, Lisa, tries to pull her into real life by setting up a hilarious double-date for the school's semi formal. Suicide, depression, love, homosexuality, crushes, cliques of popular, manipulative peers the whole gamut of teen life is explored in this poignant glimpse into the heartache of being 16.
The New York Times - Elizabeth Spires
The black and white pictures …create a nuanced, three-dimensional portrait of Skim, conveying a great deal of information often without the help of the text…Graphic novels, by the nature of their form, often use as little text as possible; the dialogue is sometimes hardly more than a serviceable vehicle to drive the action. In Skim, however, the spare dialogue is just right, capturing the cynical and biting way that Skim and her classmates tend to talk to one another…All in all, Skim offers a startlingly clear and painful view into adolescence for those of us who possess it only as a distant memory. It's a story that deepens with successive rereadings. But what will teenagers think? Maybe that they've found a bracingly honest story by a writer who seems to remember exactly what it was like to be 16 and in love for the first time.
Categories:
- Teen & Young Adult
- Literature & Fiction
- Literary
- Literature & Fiction
Publisher : Groundwood Books
Author : Mariko Tamaki
Language : English
Edition : F First Edition
Published :2008-02-28
Number Of Pages : 144
Binding : Hardcover
ISBN-10 : 0888997531
ISBN-13 : 9780888997531
Item weight : 1.72 lb
Dimensions : 0.87 in x 7 in x 10.4 in
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