She's got the anxiety, she's got the fear, and she would rather avoid this uncomfortable topic than face it head on. On the characters' similarities to real life The story carries themes of acceptance, packed with imagery of the town, its ghosts and its Day of the Dead celebrations. The town turns out to be full of ghosts - and Maya wants nothing more than to befriend them, though her older sister can't accept that Maya may soon join them. Their family has just moved to a new town on the Northern California coast where their parents hope the cool sea air will help Maya breathe. Her latest graphic novel Ghosts is about two sisters, middle-schooler Catrina and little sister Maya, who has the incurable lung disease cystic fibrosis. In 2012, Telgemeier's Drama told a "colorful tale of teenage intrigue, but this time the mad crushes and mood swings take place among the stage crew of a middle-school theater production," said NPR's Glen Weldon, who called it "an unabashedly sunny, funny and warmhearted read." Her 2010 memoir Smile recounts what it was like to be teased by other children face after losing two front teeth in sixth grade and wearing "embarrassing headgear," braces and "even a retainer with fake teeth attached."
Telgemeier has been writing and drawing graphic novels for years. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Ghosts Author Raina Telgemeier
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