My Last Summer with Cass by Mark Crilley

 
 

I saw a review of this graphic novel on Hit or Miss Books.  I'm so glad I gave this a go!

 

It's a quick but intense read.  I agree with Monica from Hit or Miss that ' I was glued to this graphic novel until the very end. Con: I finished it in 15 minutes. Pro: Those were some intense 15 minutes that I wouldn’t mind repeating.'

 

I was a bit surprised the author was a man because he captured the young women so well.  This is a book about friendships forged young and then tested.

Just So Happens by Fumio Obata

Give this graphic novel a go – it's a quick read but quite atmospheric.  A designer (born in Japan) is working in London.  She gets a call at work to tell her that her father has died.  The main story deals with her return to Japan to deal with things and her pull towards the culture of her home country against an exciting career.

 

It has threads of what it is like to be a stranger in a strange land, and what you feel when you go home.  Her father is gone but her mother who divorced him many years before is still there.

The author is a Japanese man who has lived in the UK since 1991.