This One Summer Kindle Edition
Author: Visit ‘s Mariko Tamaki Page ID: B00JYZAP34
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File Size: 332923 KBPrint Length: 320 pagesPublisher: First Second (May 6, 2014)Publication Date: May 6, 2014 Sold by: Macmillan Language: EnglishID: B00JYZAP34Text-to-Speech: Not enabled X-Ray: Not Enabled Word Wise: Not EnabledLending: Not Enabled Enhanced Typesetting: Not Enabled Best Sellers Rank: #136,093 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store) #117 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Comics & Graphic Novels > Teen & Young Adult #118 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Teen & Young Adult > Literature & Fiction > Comics & Graphic Novels #245 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Children’s eBooks > Comics & Graphic Novels
"This One Summer" is a graphic novel by Mariko Tamaki with charcoal-and-ink art by Jillian Tamaki, a team of cousins whose first collaboration, Skim, won a New York Times Illustrated Children’s Book Award. "Summer" tells the complex and ultimately edifying story of Rose, a tween (her age is never stated) who deals with family tensions and—vicariously, by watching the local teens in the town where her family vacations—explores the mysterious world of near-adulthood.
Rose’s mom, Alice, is dealing with depression in the aftermath of a failed pregnancy, and this leads to conflict with Rose’s kindly (and slightly immature) dad. And as this conflict progresses from tension to acrimony to reconciliation, Rose finds her attention drawn—first as an observer, and then as a sort of spy—to a parallel drama playing out between a convenience-store clerk (and subject of a minor crush) and his apparently pregnant girlfriend. Her attention caught by these two stories, Rose seems to be pondering what role she can take on as an adult, and which one of the two roles that present themselves—familiar, beloved, but withdrawn mother, or emotional, liberated, but tragic teenage girl—lie closest to how she sees herself.
Also in the mix is Windy, Rose’s younger friend, who serves as a foil for Rose’s dilemma. Windy is full of slighting references to the teens’ drama, and whether this stems from sincere disdain or a desire to keep them at a safe distance, she gives voice to perspectives that are both younger and older than Rose’s. In this way, she serves as a representation of the ways in which the community around an adolescent can be both comforting and alienating.
Summer ends with these conflicts largely resolved.
Our youthful heroine, Rose Wallace gets ready for still another vacation at a beach, where she would swim, munch on gummy candy, and watch horror movies with her pleasantly plump friend, "Windy".
Yet the two girls, who had not yet reached their puberty, are getting an unwanted glimpse of something very personal that usually happens to older people. It is not about breast jokes or getting a boyfriend. It is about having babies. And nope, it ain’t pretty, either.
One woman – namely Rose’s own mother – is struggling hard to conceive while the other woman – the girlfriend of a young shop clerk – may be knocked up. Both incidents are of a very different nature, yet they both turn grown men back into reluctant, sulking children prone to angry quarrels with their partners. And it is also casting a very dark, stormy cloud over what would have otherwise been a very sunny R and R.
Even worse, something serious had happened to Rose’s mother while out swimming the previous year, so she has kept it a deep secret even from her own family. As a result, no one is very supportive of the poor woman – not even her own daughter. And it is also causing a very tense rift in the whole family and even threatening the marriage, too!
A very interesting read for young people (best over 13 due to language and adult situations) involving very realistic characters (of course not, they aren’t drawn like flawless manga characters that Rose enjoys reading about. In fact, some kids are pretty pudgy, Windy’s foster mother has a horse-like face, and "The Dud" is still ugly-looking in spite of his "stud" status.)
And the story is also beautifully illustrated (some splash pages of the Awago Beach are pretty astonishing!
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