Lisa Carlson, MIT, Teacher-Libn., Shelton HS, Shelton, WA In addition, many of the vignettes would be appropriate for reading, analysis and discussion in high school literature-based courses. Such cognition might not be easily grasped by an immature audience, making One Hundred Demons best suited as an addition to a public library or high school library's graphic novel collection. However, whereas the former keeps her characters firmly rooted in the past, Barry transports the reader from the past to the present, revealing the lessons she learned were gained after introspection as an adult. Like Cisneros's, Barry sets her "demons" during her younger years. These stories are rich, vibrant and deserving of comparison with Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street, a novel used frequently in high school literature classes for its sophisticated development of character, voice and theme in brief vignettes of childhood experiences. Ink and watercolor panels have a raw, childlike quality that might not be immediately appealing, but they grow on the reader as the stories are told. Barry depicts a number of significant characters that give these stories life, including her half-Philippine mother and Philippine grandmother who play major roles in enhancing the emotional intensity of nearly each recollection. Topics include first boyfriends, betrayed friendship, street games, hate and love, abuse and healing, death, and creativity. Many of the stories involve her adolescent experiences as the "cootie-girl" everyone picked on. Inspired by a 16th-century Zen monk's painting, Barry creates 17 vignettes, called "demons," in this autobiographical, but fictionalized, graphic novel.
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