[The Diary of a Teenage Girl, Revised Edition: an Account in Words and Pictures] [Phoebe Gloeckner]

by Phoebe Gloeckner

Genres: Graphic Novels

Unknown Binding

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Gloeckner has pushed the boundaries of comics storytelling with The Diary of a Teenage Girl. Her masterwork melded her childhood diaries and illustrations, two very intimate storytelling methods. Fifteen-year-old Minnie Goetz, an avatar for Phoebe, lives in San Francisco with her mother and starts to explore drugs, sex, and art. Gloeckner was trained as a medical illustrator, which lends her artwork an intense, uncomfortable realism, especially in the sex scenes with her inappropriately older lover. Not for the faint of heart, this memoir is equal parts devastating, funny, and insightful.

- Julia Rittenberg

[D · Rating 4 out of 5]

heartbreaking, disturbing, and brilliant.
TW for mentions of r*pe, dr*g use, family problems

[Atticus Karst · Rating 5 out of 5]

my mind all the time

[Aishwarya Sivaramakrishnan · Rating 2 out of 5]

this was a very difficult read.

[Kelly Konczal · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wild! Now I need to go read my daughter’s diary. Yikes!