Akemi Dawn Bowman’s Starfish is the story of Kiko Himura, a young artist living with her mom and two brothers somewhere in Nebraska. Kiko is cripplingly shy and anxious, the result of years of emotional neglect and abuse at the hands of a narcissist mother and creepy uncle. The only thing she has in her life is her art, and her dreams of getting into Prism art school in New York. She used to be a happy enough kid, with a wonderful best friend named […]