Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Adultolescence

Hanna, Gabbie. Adultolescence. 2017. 248p. 80 mins. ISBN 9781501178320. Available as an audiobook from Overdrive.

Adultolescence

In this short book, poet Gabbie Hanna retraces milestones in her life from her childhood to becoming an adult. Sometimes joyful, sometimes filled with sorrows, but always vibrant and entertaining, Hanna's take on the formative events that affected her. She discusses childhood dramas, first loves, betrayal, humiliation, loneliness, alienation and everyday encounters. Through it all she is funny and biting, with a style of humor everyone will get.

The illustrations themselves greatly contribute to her poetry and help convey even more emotions than the words themselves. Fans of poetry will appreciate Hanna's take on life, and will relate to many of the milestones that they also lived through.

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