Staff Picks: Space Boy by Stephen McCranie

A subtle yet poignant sci-fi graphic novel about a teenage girl named  Amy navigating a unique grief. Amy grew up on a mining colony in deep space, but after her father is suddenly fired from his job there, her family is forced to make the 30 year long journey back to earth. Cryo-sleep technology means no one ages during the journey, but time passes all the same, and the earth Amy wakes up to is a strange and unfamiliar place. None of her classmates know her favorite songs, and her best friend back in deep space is now a mom with three kids. The only person perhaps more out of place than Amy is the nameless white-haired boy in her art class who carries with him an emptiness deep as space and tries to paint the space between  the stars.

-Stephanie, Circulation

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