Read this when
Skim
When the whole school is performing grief and you just feel... quiet. Skim gets it. 🖤
Who it's for
Skim's diary voice captures the flat, quiet texture of teenage depression without melodrama, which helps readers who feel invisible feel seen.
Numb→Understood
Feelings it meets
What it is
Skim is a 2008 graphic novel written by Mariko Tamaki and illustrated by Jillian Tamaki, set in 1993 at a Catholic girls' high school in Toronto. It follows Kimberly Keiko Cameron, known as Skim, a Japanese-Canadian goth and Wiccan outsider.
Where to find it
In print; widely available from libraries (Libby/Hoopla where licensed) and as an ebook (library availability may be limited).
Before you start
Heads up: A teenager's suicide.
Age: Ages 14+
I felt a funeral in my brain, And mourners, to and fro, Kept treading, treading, till it seemed That sense was breaking through.Emily Dickinson, Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series
