Age 16

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Product Details
Price
$24.99  $23.24
Publisher
Annick Press
Publish Date
Pages
312
Dimensions
6.3 X 9.4 X 1.0 inches | 1.64 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9781773218335

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About the Author

ROSENA FUNG is an illustrator and comic artist from Toronto, Ontario. Her work has been shortlisted for the Silver Birch Award, and her favorite things are reading, cats, and eating snacks.

Reviews
"Age 16 is a needed reminder that we are all echoes from wartimes and generations past, a crucial addition to the AAPI graphic memoir collective. Painful but kind, holistic without stretching too thin, this book will live in my head for a long time." --Deb JJ Lee, creator of In Limbo
"Age 16 tells a modern teenage story--the anxieties and joys of friendship, prom dresses, and university applications--while being grounded in a complex, compelling intergenerational narrative that spans decades and continents. Rosena Fung's energetic cartooning brings this emotionally powerful tale to life. Layered, thoughtful, and important, but also a sheer delight to read: I can't praise Age 16 enough!" --Andrew Woodrow-Butcher, The Beguiling Books & Art
"[A] moving and emotional graphic novel [that] shows us how our history can come to define us, and how we can choose to change." --Victoria Ying, Harvey Award-winning author of Hungry Ghost
"This beautiful triple-timeline story will top critics'
lists, and young adults' bedside reading piles!"--Fiona Smyth, illustrator
of the Stonewall Honor Book Sex
Is a Funny Word

"Rosena artfully captures the pain and joy of this age. From beginning to end, this story is just brimming with heart." --Tillie Walden, author of Spinning
"An absolutely brilliant exploration of intergenerational trauma, body image, and the struggle to find out who you are. It's poignant and profound but also full of delightful offbeat humor. I no sooner finished reading Age 16, then I turned back and read it twice more." --Jeffrey Canton, Children's Book columnist, The Globe and Mail
"[T]he emotional weight of each of the teens' lives at a tender age is captured with authenticity and realism . . . Getting to see three lives unfold in different locations and times is a gift Fung eloquently unwraps in this graphic novel that increases the visibility of AAPI stories in books for teens." --School Library Journal, 05/24
"[A] poignant tale of generational strife, rebellion, and self-acceptance." --Publishers Weekly, *starred review, 04/18/24
"An affecting story of family estrangement, body shaming, and the journey to self-acceptance." --Kirkus Reviews, 04/15/24

"In creating empathic art, Fung alchemizes painful personal history into an empowering homage 'to help us realize we're already who we're supposed to be.'" --Booklist, 05/01/24


"With its unique multigenerational approach, Age 16 expertly tackles perceptions of weight, self-worth and parental conflict." -- BookPage, *starred review, 07/24