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Oleksyk, Sarah: Ivy

Ivy
By Sarah Oleksyk
Oni Press, 2011
Hardcover $19.99
978-1934964590

Ivy by Sarah Oleksyk is a graphic novel that I’ve been meaning to read ever since I first saw it on the Oni Press website a few months back. At first glance, it seems like a very standard coming-of-age story. Ivy Stenova’s an aspiring teen painter growing up in a small town in Maine. She feels stifled by her surroundings and misunderstood by everyone. When she attends an art school college fair in Boston, she meets Josh, who seems to be a kindred spirit. For a while it seems like their long-distance relationship is just the escape she needs from her troubles at home.

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