This YA novel, which the lovely trapunto recommended me, is all about going off and doing a new thing (art school), and meeting new people (art people), and growing up. It explores that opening-up of choices that happens when you leave home, when your world gets bigger in good ways and in bad, and because it is bigger it is hard to navigate. Growing up into adulthood has turned out to be way more difficult than I anticipated as a kid. Because I remember when I was little, and grown-ups would go on and on about how I didn’t know…
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