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Night and Dana

Anya Davidson
Book
July
2023

Review:

I was meh about this one. It was a nice story, but I was kinda sad that she didn’t really do anything by the end. She got an internship, but she didn’t get into college. I know it’s close to what happens to people in real life, but it definitely makes me annoyed. I also didn’t love the art style but that wasn’t any fault of the artist. Eh it was ok.

Trigger Warnings:
Graphic Makeup and Climate Change

Synopsis From Book:

A creative coming-of-age story for the climate-change generation Dana Drucker fights boredom in her Florida beach town by crafting special-effects makeup―the more gruesome, the better. But when a messy prank with Dana’s best friend Lily gets the wrong kind of attention, the girls have two find a new creative outlet or leave high school without graduating. To save their shot at diplomas, Dana and Lily join a community college film class. It gives Dana a chance to keep practicing her monster makeup, as she and Lily start work on a horror movie inspired by local ocean warming. And a search for filming locations puts Dana in the path of Daphne Ocean, an activist and self-proclaimed water witch―the perfect kind of inspiring outsider. But when filming starts, Dana finds herself growing apart from Lily, who doesn’t seem to need her closest friend much anymore. Soon, tempers are flaring, and Dana’s pushing away old friends and her new mentor. But as everything starts going up in flames, Dana also begins to forge her voice. Night and Dana is a creative coming-of-age story for the climate-change era, a graphic novel about making art and growing up when it feels like the world is on fire.
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