num_pages: 248
description: In the tradition of Persepolis and American Born Chinese  a wise and funny high school heroine comes of age.Tina M. sophomore is a wry observer of the cliques and mores of Yarborough Academy and of the foibles of her Southern California intellectual Indian family. She's on a first-name basis with Jean-Paul Sartre the result of an English honors class assignment to keep an existential diary.Keshni Kashyaps compulsively readable graphic novel packs in existential high school dramafrom Tina getting dumped by her smart-girl ally to a kiss on the mouth (Tinas mouth but not technically her first kiss) from a cute skateboarder Neil Strumminger. And it memorably answers the pressing Can an English honors assignment be one fifteen-year-old girls path to enlightenment?
language: English
title: Tina's Mouth: An Existential Comic Diary
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt