mariko tamaki laura dean keeps breaking up with me

Being involved with Laura is giving Freddy a Charlie Brown level of angst and gullibility, and she starts to treat her friends like crap – blowing them off to make herself available to Laura’s whims.

Laura Dean is cool and aloof – that “I’ll hang out with you if nothing better comes up” kind of girlfriend. Frederica “Freddy” Riley is agonizingly in love with the wrong person.

Set in Berkeley, California, the LGBTQ story revolves around a group of friends who are popular and confident and trying out different relationship scenarios. There’s no rhyme or reason to its presence, yet this singular colour becomes an anticipated comfort throughout the entire story.Īfter a run of well-received superhero comics for Marvel and DC, award-winning author Tamaki ( Skim This One Summer) makes a triumphant return to the YA graphic novel form with a narrative that feels louder and prouder than her previous genre works. The colourful touch first appears on falling balloons at a 1980s-themed dance elsewhere it’s the background of a speech bubble that simply reads, “sob,” and later it pops up in the toppings on a pancake. The pages are predominantly black, white, and grey except for splashes of the most beatific shade of peachy-pink, which perfectly accentuate the bittersweet quality of this story of high-school heartache and friendship.

It’s the colour scheme that grabs you first in Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O’Connell’s Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me.

Mariko tamaki laura dean keeps breaking up with me