STARGAZING - GRAPHIC NOVEL
Moon is everything Christine isn't. She's confident, impulsive, artistic . . . and though they both grew up in the same Chinese-American suburb, Moon is somehow unlike anyone Christine has ever known. But after Moon moves in next door, these unlikely friends are soon best friends, sharing their favorite music videos and painting their toenails when Christine's strict parents aren't around. Moon even tells Christine her deepest secret: that she has visions, sometimes, of celestial beings who speak to her from the stars. Who reassure her that earth isn't where she really belongs. Moon's visions have an all-too-earthly root, however, and soon Christine's best friend is in the hospital, fighting for her life. Can Christine be the friend Moon needs, now, when the sky is falling? Jen Wang draws on her childhood to paint a deeply personal yet wholly relatable friendship story that's at turns joyful, heart-wrenching, and full of hope.
Edad recomendada: A partir de 11 años.
WANG JEN
Jen Wang, nacida como Jennifer Sheena Wang el 22 de marzo de 1984 en Alameda, California, es historietista, guionista e ilustradora estadounidense de ascendencia taiwanesa. Creció en el área de la Bahía de San Francisco y estudió inicialmente cine en la Universidad Estatal de San Francisco, aunque finalmente se graduó en sociología. Reside en Los Ángeles y ha desarrollado una carrera en la novela gráfica con obras como Koko Be Good, In Real Life, The Prince and the Dressmaker y Stargazing, publicada en 2019 por First Second Books. Esta última está dirigida a un público infantil y juvenil y explora la amistad entre dos niñas chinas-estadounidenses en un suburbio. Wang ha recibido reconocimientos como el Premio Eisner y el Premio Juvenil del Festival de Angulema en 2019.
