num_pages: 320
description: "I don't remember being born. I was a very ugly child. My appearance has not improved so I guess it was a lucky break when he was attracted by my youthfulness." So begins the story of Minnie Glover in The Diary of a Teenage Girl . Saddled with a narcissistic mother, a string of sleazy stepfathers, and her own precocious sexuality, fifteen-year-old Minnie plunges into an unguided but fearless adolescence. More than a simple diary, this acclaimed cartoonist's semi-autobiographical story of her coming of age in San Francisco in the 1970s is a deft blend of visual and verbal narrative, a frank and unflinching chronicle of survival in an incomprehensible world.
language: English
title: The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures
titlecomplete: The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures
characters: Minnie Goetze
genres: Graphic Novels Comics, Graphic Novels, Young Adult, Novels, Coming Of Age, Adult, Teen, Comics, Fiction, Comix
ratings_count: 4611
places: San Francisco, California
publisher: Frog Books