Synopsis
Maybonne and Marlys Mullen endure the mortifying highs and lows of middle school in this Lynda Barry classic.
Collected from the strip Ernie Pook’s Comeek, which was serialized in alternative weeklies across the continent, My Perfect Life captures the moment when Lynda Barry finds the perfect balance in longer-form storytelling between the bellyaching laughs and the brutal reality checks. Along with...
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14 June 2022
9781770465657Reviews
“My Perfect Life is [Barry’s] finest, funniest, most affecting graphic novel to date, partly because she’s perfected her draughtsmanship, but also because it observes the Aristotelian dramatic unities, sort of.” —Entertainment Weekly
“Barry’s carefully chosen words and scribbly drawings capture the melodramatic fantasies and insecurities of adolescence more accurately than most conventional novels do.” —Los Angeles Times
“What a trip back to middle school this read was, with the long phone calls, the cord stretching to the bedroom for privacy, and the endless notes passed to friends... I felt that this collection was the most satisfying of Barry’s collections.” —Youth Services Book Review
