Roaming
Co-created with Mariko Tamaki
Drawn and Quarterly, Sept 2023
For mature readers
Spring break, 2009. High school best friends Zoe and Dani are now freshman college students, meeting in a place they’ve wanted to visit forever: New York City. Tagging along is Dani’s classmate Fiona, a mercurial art student with an opinion on everything. Together, the three cram in as much of the city as possible, gleefully falling into tourist traps, pondering so-called great works of art, sidestepping creeps, and eating lots and lots of pizza (folded in half, of course). Roaming is a ground-breaking graphic novel from the authors behind New York Times bestseller and Caldecott Honor Book This One Summer.
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“Playful yet plaintive, this is an elegant study of young women caught between the comforts of the past and the promise of what comes next.” -Publisher’s Weekly (starred review)
“The Tamakis’ keen understanding of how friendships shift and change is at the heart of many of their books together, but it’s at its heartachingly vivid best here. Absolutely superb.” -Booklist (starred review)
“A tender examination ensues of young adults unsure whether to forget the past in order to navigate an uncertain future. Rather than being bogged down in pensive navel-gazing or melodrama, the novel emphasizes the exhilaration of youth; how exhilarating it is to be young, to be in love, to explore new places and aspects of yourself, and to experience each emotion, good or bad, so very intensely.” -Library Journal (starred review)
2023 ALA Best Graphic Novels for Adults / 2024 YALSA Great Graphic Novels for Teens / Lambda Literary Award Finalist / GLAAD Media Awards Nominated / Doug Wright Awards Nominated
