![]() ![]() Through “Smile,” I watched Raina grow up and learn to hold her head high, and I was totally rooting for her. ![]() Readers may remember Raina from Telgemeier’s “Smile,” published four years ago, which followed her struggles to navigate adolescence, friendships and prolonged orthodontic misadventures. Memories of improbable pet deaths, their father’s unemployment and the difficulties of coexisting in a small apartment are woven into the tale of their emotional and sometimes tense journey through the American West. Raina and her sister, Amara, argue over everything, from what to do about a snake on the loose (“What if we shut him in a suitcase till we’re home?”) to their parents’ relationship (“You don’t think Mom and Dad are gonna split up. They are on a weeklong drive from their home in San Francisco to a family reunion in Colorado Springs, and as temperatures rise, so do tempers. ![]() In “Sisters,” the latest graphic memoir by Raina Telgemeier, it is the summer before high school and Raina is stuck between a squirrelly little brother and a volatile younger sister in a van without air conditioning. ![]()
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