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The Airless Year por Adam P. Knave
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The Airless Year (edición 2022)

por Adam P. Knave (Autor), Valentine Barker (Ilustrador), Frank Cvetkovic (Ilustrador)

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For Kacee, a queer Black girl in middle school, everything feels like a struggle, but when she fails a class as a result of her stress and ends up in summer school, she begins to discover her own power to improve the things in her life she can control.
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Título:The Airless Year
Autores:Adam P. Knave (Autor)
Otros autores:Valentine Barker (Ilustrador), Frank Cvetkovic (Ilustrador)
Información:Dark Horse Books (2022), 160 pages
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Valoración:**1/2
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The Airless Year por Adam P. Knave

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(Full disclosure: I received a free e-ARC for review through Edelweiss.)

THE AIRLESS YEAR follows a young adult named Kacee as she navigates a calendar year in middle school - hard enough on its own, but she's failing math and French; her two besties are also warring twin siblings; her parents are the worst; and she's a queer, Black girl with an unrequited crush on a super-cool nonbinary artist. In order to "succeed" - in school and relationships - she has to learn who she is, what matters most to her, and how to ask for (and accept) help.

I really wanted to like THE AIRLESS YEAR, but the story mostly fell flat for me. Maybe it's because I'm not the intended audience - it's been decades since I was Kacee's age - but very little here struck a chord in me. It's not that Kacee's struggles aren't relatable; I still remember what it felt like to be 13, impossibly awkward, and with few friends to fall back on (or at least I think I do / still am, I guess). Rather, the story just felt underwhelming.

One example: Kacee's family dynamics. Kacee is a dark-skinned Black girl; her mother is Black, but lighter-skinned, and dad is very clearly white. Both parents are kind of terrible - unsupportive scolds who badger Kacee night and day without offering any actual help, and who actively mock her (few) friends (!) - but Dad is clearly the worse of the two. One word comes to mind when describing his behavior: misogynoir. But, since race isn't really discussed at all, we're mostly left guessing over this guy.

(Yes, it's great to create a diverse story without having to actively address things like race, ethnicity, gender, sexual identity and orientation, and religion ad nauseam, but I feel like throwing in an overbearing white dad without explanation is questionable at best.)

The artwork is a bit of a mixed bag for me. Whereas the alien landscapes Kacee escapes to her in head are quite lovely, I'm not a huge fan of the people - everyone has the same weird, lumpy shape and oddly shaped head. Definitely a distraction. ( )
  smiteme | May 9, 2022 |
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