A big thank you to my wonderful English department colleague, who when I said I needed to read a non-superhero-related graphic novel, took me to his office and pulled a bunch of books off the shelf and loaned them to me. Anya’s Ghost was the first one I read, and I devoured it in one sitting. Anya is a typical teenager, broody, slightly exasperated by her mom and brother, and trying to distance herself from Dima, a nerdy and much more recent immigrant from Russia. […]
