num_pages: 208
description: From Eisner-Award nominated writer Marika McCoola and debut artist Aatmaja Pandya an emotional coming-of-age graphic novel for fans of Bloom and Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me .Right before Jade is about to leave for a summer art intensive her best friend Phoebe attempts suicide. How is Jade supposed to focus on herself right now?But at the Art Farm Jade has artistic opportunities shes been waiting for her whole life. And as she gets to know her classmates she begins to fall for whimsical upbeat comfortable-in-her-own-skin Mary. Jade pours herself into making ceramic monsters that vent her stress and insecurities but when she puts her creatures in the kiln something unreal they come to life. And theyre taking a if Jade wont confront her problems her problems are going to confront her including the scariest of them allif Jade grows prospers and even falls in love this summer is she leaving Phoebe behind?
language: English
title: Slip
publisher: Algonquin Young Readers