Nathan Whitlock wrote for Quill and Quire: “The real genius of the illustration is how the characters are depicted.
Specifically, her mother’s depression stemming from a miscarriage and the drama surrounding a local teenage girl named Jenny’s possible pregnancy.Īll the characters in the book feel like real people you would see in a town like this one: From Rose’s goofy father and melancholic mother, to her boisterous friend Windy and her incense-selling vegan mother and the various other rough-around-the-edges locals who inhabit the beach. The terrifying realities of adulthood are observed through the eyes of a young, often passive, protagonist whose pettiness, bitterness, envy, confusion, and self-involvement act as a filter to the trauma and pain of the women around her. The Tamaki cousins’ exploration of youth is compelling. Since its publication in 2014, the graphic novel has become a critically beloved member of the YA genre. Jillian and Mariko Tamaki’s This One Summer is a graphic novel that truly encapsulates the troubled, complicated world of adolescence its protagonist, Rose, is a girl around thirteen who spends her summers at her family’s cottage near Awago Beach, swimming, drinking “pop” (native New Yorker here, so calling it anything other than soda feels alien to me), and watching horror movies with her younger friend, Windy.
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