Kim W. Andersson brings all the heightened emotions without many nuances to Alena. It doesn’t need nuance, particularly, though. This is going to be a story that ends badly because that’s how all these stories end.
The Revision: Alena
Year: 2022
The Revision: The Diary of a Teenage Girl
It needs to be made clear that Phoebe Gloeckner’s The Diary of a Teenage Girl is not actually a graphic novel. It’s a prose novel that happens to have some illustrations and some pages of comics. That won’t stop people from referring to it as a “graphic novel” though.
The Revision: Lou! Journal infime
Lou is preteen (and then teen) girl who is exploring the ups and downs of adolescence — first crushes, mood swings, new and old friendships. Her mother, who had Lou when she was young, is also dealing with her book deadline while she’d rather be playing video games and crushing on the new neighbor in the building.
The Revision: Gemma Bovery
Much like Simmonds’ Tamara Drewe, this is a story of a woman whose life doesn’t quite get to be her own. Gemma is maybe a bit bored and dissatisfied with her marriage and living in France isn’t the fantasy she had in mind, but it’s Joubert’s continuing fascination with her, even after her death, that turns her into the literary heroine Joubert wants her to be. By reading her diaries, Joubert is trying to reconstruct her life and love affairs into a narrative that suits him.
The Revision: We Are the Best!
In 1982, Coco Moodysson was 12 years old and wanted nothing more than to start a punk band. The little matter of not being able to play an instrument (or even owning one) didn’t matter to her, her friend Klara, and Klara’s sister, Matilda. They also didn’t care everyone kept telling them punk was over.