Product Details
Touchstone, May 2008
Trade Paperback, 232 pages
ISBN-10: 1416552359
ISBN-13: 9781416552352
Description
Ariel Schrag continues her tumultuous passage through high school in the second book of her acclaimed series of frank, insightful, and painfully honest autobiographical graphic novels. Written during the summer following her junior year at Berkeley High School in California, Potential recounts Ariel's first real relationship and first-time love with a girl, her quest to lose her virginity to a boy, and her parents' divorce -- as well as the personal and social complications of writing about her life as she lives it. Along the way she hangs out with her favorite teacher, obsesses over clothes, gets drunk, smokes pot, and tries to connect the biology she reads about in textbooks with the biology she's living.
"A smart, sweet graphic memoir. Schrag's work should resonate with anyone -- female or male, gay or straight -- who has survived high school."
-- Kirkus Reviews (starred)
"A mesmerizing read...hilarious frankness and a wickedly addictive sense of storytelling."
-- The Village Voice
"One of the best pure storytellers I have ever read, in any medium."
-- The Comics Journal
"Schrag's autobiographical comics illustrate adolescent life with unwavering energy, unrelenting sarcasm, and unabashed detail."
-- Bitch
Newsday, May 25, 2009
...fiddle to Berry's loving portrait of a wounded idealist trying desperately to do something good. LIKEWISE by Ariel Schrag. Touchstone Books, 400 pp., $16 paper. Graphic diarist Ariel Schrag's three-volume memoir ends not with senility or old ...
Austin Chronicle, May 8, 2009
...is the final third of a trilogy of autobiographical novels ? the previous two, Awkward and Definition and Potential, were also published by Simon & Schuster imprint Touchstone ? and Likewise, the story of Schrag's senior year of high school, ...
WXEL, May 5, 2009
...Cartoonist Ariel Schrag's compulsive, autobiographical comics map the peaks and valleys of high-school life in the 1990s. If phoniness is still the plague of adolescence, Ariel Schrag's obsession with truth-telling ...
Ariel Schrag's Books
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Awkward and DefinitionAriel Schrag captures the American high school experience in all its awkward, questioning glory in Awkward and Definition, the first of three amazingly...Read More
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