My Perfect Life by Lynda Barry 128 pp.
This is a collection of strips originally serialized in Ernie Pook's Comeek. Maybonne and her little sister, Marlys navigate middle school in what seems (in my experience) to be the 1970s. It's all there, the dysfunctional family, uncertainty, smoking, cliques, bullies, first kisses (and more), Jesus Freaks, acid, and angst, lots of angst. Nothing is sugar coated and as the girls grow one year older it seems possible they just might be okay.
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