![]() These stories are rich, vibrant and deserving of comparison with Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street, a novel used frequently in high school literature classes for its sophisticated development of character, voice and theme in brief vignettes of childhood experiences. Ink and watercolor panels have a raw, childlike quality that might not be immediately appealing, but they grow on the reader as the stories are told. Barry depicts a number of significant characters that give these stories life, including her half-Philippine mother and Philippine grandmother who play major roles in enhancing the emotional intensity of nearly each recollection. Topics include first boyfriends, betrayed friendship, street games, hate and love, abuse and healing, death, and creativity. Many of the stories involve her adolescent experiences as the "cootie-girl" everyone picked on. Inspired by a 16th-century Zen monk's painting, Barry creates 17 vignettes, called "demons," in this autobiographical, but fictionalized, graphic novel. ![]() ![]() One hundred demons! Sasquatch Books, 216p. One hundred demons!." Retrieved from !-a0146344760 ![]()
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