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Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me
If they keep breaking up with you, that's not a love story, that's a loop. 💔🔁
Who it's for
Freddy's relationship with Laura Dean runs on an on-off loop that readers in similar relationships will recognise at once: the thrill when Laura returns, the hurt when she leaves, the constant waiting.
Feelings it meets
What it is
Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O'Connell's 2019 graphic novel (First Second) is set in Berkeley, California, and follows 17-year-old Freddy Riley through her on-again, off-again relationship with the popular Laura Dean. While trying to stop the breakups, Freddy neglects her friends, including her best friend Doodle, and seeks answers from a medium and from the advice columnist Anna Vice.
Where to find it
In print; widely available from libraries (Libby/Hoopla where licensed) and as an ebook.
Before you start
Heads up: Emotional manipulation and an abortion.
Age: Ages 14+
But let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, “On Marriage”
