Nidhi Chanani
Autor de Pashmina
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1980
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Kolkata, India
- Lugares de residencia
- San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA
- Educación
- University of California, Santa Cruz
- Premios y honores
- Champion of Change (artwork, 2012)
- Biografía breve
- Nidhi Chanani is a freelance illustrator, cartoonist and writer. She is the owner of Everyday Love Art. Her debut graphic novel, Pashmina, was released by First Second Books in October 2017. She recently illustrated Misty – The Proud Cloud, a children’s book by Hugh Howey. She is an instructor in the Master of Fine Arts, Comics program at the California College of Arts. Nidhi was born in Calcutta and raised in suburban southern California. She holds a degree in Literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She creates because it makes her happy – with the hope that it can make others happy, too. In April of 2012 she was honored by the Obama Administration as a Champion of Change. Her media appearances include CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 and BBC Radio. Her work has been featured on the Huffington Post, the Women’s March, My Modern Met, Bored Panda and India Times. Nidhi has worked with Disney, ABC, Airbnb, Sony, Microsoft, State Farm Insurance and a variety of other clients. Her non-fiction comics have appeared in the Nib. Everyday Love Art products are sold in retail shops across the country, including the San Francisco International Airport, Books Inc., and Therapy stores. Nidhi draws and dreams every day with her husband, daughter and their two cats in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Representation: Asian characters
Trigger warnings: N/A
Score: Six out of ten.
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I wanted to read this for a while when I saw it in a library, but someone else got it before I could. I had to go to another library to get this one. I glanced at the blurb, making Super Boba Café seem intriguing, and soon enough I picked it up. However, when I closed the final page, it was a unique reading experience.
It starts with the first person I see, Aria, moving to San Francisco from another town for undisclosed reasons. She soon helps her grandmother, Jing, run a bubble tea store, but something felt off the moment I kept reading the pages. It felt like the decisions Jing made hid something of negative implications, but I didn't know yet until the latter half of Super Boba Café. I headed in expecting a light-hearted read but instead I got a suspenseful one. It turns out that Jing has to feed a monster living in San Francisco no one knows of except her, and the only way to feed it is to cook a giant boba ball taking nine hours, or else the monster eats Jing instead. The last 100 pages or so revolve around Aria stumbling upon said monster and surviving the encounter, with her and Jing feeding it more boba. When you think about the plot, it sounds repetitive, and the world-building wasn't explained clearly enough. The characters are also only okay, and perhaps a second instalment in the series should clarify everything. At least there's a high note in the end. … (más)
Trigger warnings: N/A
Score: Six out of ten.
Find this review on The StoryGraph.
I wanted to read this for a while when I saw it in a library, but someone else got it before I could. I had to go to another library to get this one. I glanced at the blurb, making Super Boba Café seem intriguing, and soon enough I picked it up. However, when I closed the final page, it was a unique reading experience.
I liked the elements, but Pashmina doesn't quite manage to hang together, for me. The plot keeps darting in different directions, each of which could be the basis for an entire book (the ill-advised prayer which might have come true? mysterious family stuff? the difference between how you imagine a place and reality? straight up magic?), and then doesn't have time to resolve any of them satisfyingly. (A god shows up and tells you it's OK, the baby is going to be fine. You solved half the mysterious family stuff, but what is up with your aunt and uncle's relationship? The scarf is powerful because it shows women their options, and that's the thing that matters most!/Except how you imagine things is always different from how they are, and understanding the difference between fantasy and reality is what matters most! Yup straight up magic and ghosts all of a sudden at the end. )
The strongest thread is the one about the twin experiences of being an immigrant and being a child of the diaspora: colorful dreams that reality can't quite live up to, while also trying to distance yourself from the thing that wants to define you. That thread is enough to carry the book, you just have to live with the loose ends.… (más)
The strongest thread is the one about the twin experiences of being an immigrant and being a child of the diaspora: colorful dreams that reality can't quite live up to, while also trying to distance yourself from the thing that wants to define you. That thread is enough to carry the book, you just have to live with the loose ends.… (más)
This would be a good read for Primary readers
This book is about how a girl hears stories from her aunties on all that they have experienced and then she begins to dream up all that she also wants to experience
This would be a good book to read aloud or to have in the classroom to spark up curiosity in family members' experiences and also encourage students to dream about their own experiences.
This book is about how a girl hears stories from her aunties on all that they have experienced and then she begins to dream up all that she also wants to experience
This would be a good book to read aloud or to have in the classroom to spark up curiosity in family members' experiences and also encourage students to dream about their own experiences.
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Aria's been badly burned with a friend exposing her private pictures to social media (spoiler:
No, you cannot arrest me for a pun. Moving on ...
Although the book was mostly lighthearted, there are still some minor stakes. Also, the animals friends are very cute here - prairie dogs and kittens.
3.5… (más)