![]() ![]() ![]() In fact, the one friend she does have is more like a frenemy who jokes about bread lines. Anya isn’t doing particularly well in school. What she lacks in legs, she makes up in heft and bosom. She now attends a fancy private school in the suburbs with hot, WASP-y blonds named Elizabeth. She’s worked long and hard to get rid of her accent and anything else that would make her appear “fobby,” or fresh off the boat, and turn her into a target for bullies. ![]() “I don’t think American boys really go for girls that look like rich men,” she quips in a perfectly pitched book that channels the angst of the self-conscious, self-loathing immigrant teen.Īnya moved to the U.S. Eager-to-assimilate Anya sees things differently. Her mother insists that being fat is a good thing in Russia it means you’ve got money. Rendered in black, white and muddy shades of purple in a clean, modern style, the book begins with Anya’s cherubic mother cooking a greasy, traditional breakfast for her weight-conscious daughter. Throw an exotic ethnicity into the mix, along with a pesky ghost, and things go haywire - delightfully so in the new graphic novel “Anya’s Ghost.” Written and drawn by Russian American artist Vera Brosgol, “Anya’s Ghost” is a beautifully rendered portrait of a zaftig young lass struggling to rid herself of her origins when everyone else wants to define her by it. First Second: 221 pp., $15.99 paper, ages 12 and upīeing an American teenager is difficult enough. ![]()
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