From New York Times bestselling author Mariko Tamaki (Laura Dean
Keeps Breaking Up with Me, Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass) and artist
Yoshi Yoshitani (Zatanna and the House of Secrets) comes a story about
Mandy, the daughter of super-famous superhero Starfire.
Seventeen-year-old Mandy, daughter of Starfire, is NOT like her mother.
Starfire is gorgeous, tall, sparkly, and a hero. Mandy is NOT a sparkly
superhero. Mandy has no powers, is a kid who dyes her hair black and
hates everyone but her best friend Lincoln. To Starfire, who is from
another planet, Mandy seems like an alien, like some distant angry light
years away moon.
And it's possible Mandy is even more distant lately, ever since she
walked out on her S.A.T.s. Which, yeah, her mom doesn't know.
Everyone thinks Mandy needs to go to college and become whoever you
become at college, but Mandy has other plans. Mandy's big plan is that
she's going to move to France and...do whatever people do in France. But
then everything changes when she gets partnered with Claire for a school
project. Mandy likes Claire (even if she denies it, heartily and
intensely). A lot.
How do you become the person you're supposed to be when you don't know
what that is? How do you become the person you're supposed to be when
the only thing you're sure of is what you're not?
When someone from Starfire's past arrives, Mandy must make a choice:
give up before the battle has even begun, or step into the unknown and
risk everything to save her mom. I am Not Starfire is a story about
teenagers and/as aliens; about knowing where you come from and where you
are going; and about mothers.
