![]() ![]() ![]() With Glory, though, he is all sweetness and consideration. He’s an aspiring artist, but failing at school, mostly because he doesn’t care enough about America to put in the effort. But somehow, despite her father’s strict practice schedule, she finds time to fall in love with the boy next door, a new immigrant from Argentina called Francisco at home and Frank for Anglos. She is known, puzzlingly, as the “Brecht of the Piano” and has her first world tour lined up. Glory is a 16 year old piano prodigy, famous for improvising mixes of classical pieces and modern rock on the stage. The story, though, is a twist on the age-old story of lovers whose families don’t approve. ![]() (If you buy it as an iPad app instead of a print book, the links are live and let you click right through.) In that way, it’s slick and modern and cutting edge of fiction, kind of. There are also programs, instant message conversations, homemade mix albums, and Youtube links (which I didn’t have time to look at), with just a touch of actual spoken dialogue. That’s maybe because it’s told in photographs rather than drawings, though drawings and paintings that the characters make also show up. ![]() This is a story told mostly in pictures which is curiously shelved as a regular novel rather than a graphic novel. Sapphireone Chopsticks by Jessica Anthony and Rodrigo Corral. ![]()
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