Good as Lily
FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A strange mishap on her eighteenth birthday causes Grace Kwon to be confronted with herself at three different periods in her life--ages six, twenty-nine, and seventy--while she and her friends struggle to save a crumbling school play.
FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A strange mishap on her eighteenth birthday causes Grace Kwon to be confronted with herself at three different periods in her life--ages six, twenty-nine, and seventy--while she and her friends struggle to save a crumbling school play.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781401213817 (1401213812)
Publish date: August 1st 2007
Publisher: Minx
Pages no: 176
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Young Adult,
Teen,
Coming Of Age,
Magical Realism,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Comics,
Graphic Novels Comics,
Comix,
Manga
Wonderful. Kim has written a perfect little story in which Grace, on her 18th birthday is presented with herself at 6, 29, and very old. In three acts we watch as all the Graces find an opportunity to make all their lives better. I rather like that we're never told how the other-aged Graces manag...
"Good as Lily" by Derek Kirk Kim is a quick, sweet story about a Korean American girl named Grace Kwon who celebrates her 18th birthday in a not-so typical way. After getting hit in the head with a pinata bought from a strange old woman, Grace finds herself running into her "selves" - her 6 year ol...
I am crazy for Derek Kirk Kim, and even though Good As Lily is not as well-written or drawn as Same Difference, it's better than any of the other Minx books and better than most comix this year.