Lynda Barry's classic heartbreaking and heartwarming coming of age
novella back in print
Young Edna Arkins lives in a neighborhood that is rapidly changing,
thanks to white flight from urban Seattle in the late 1960s. As the
world changes around her, Edna is exposed to the callous racism of
adults--sometimes subtle and other times blatant, but always stinging.
By weaving the importance of music in adolescence with the forbidden
friendship between Edna, who is white, and Bonna Willis, who is Black,
Lynda Barry captures the earnest, awkward, yet always honest adolescent
voice as perfectly in prose as she does in comics.