Future Girl
By Asphyxia
Future Girl was recently selected for the Children's Book Council Australia notables list in the Book of the Year Older Readers category. Congratulations!
My Review:
Future Girl has so many beautiful layers to it that I took my time reading it to enjoy all the elements it had to offer.
Inclusion. First Love. Environmental Issues.
Political Propaganda. Parental Expectation.
Teenage Angst. Friendships.
Then on top of a strong storyline is the visual feast of supporting illustrations that are absolutely divine! The artwork is also drawn with layers of information that are just waiting to be interpreted.
The story unfolds from Piper's point of view. Piper became deaf as a young girl and struggles to find her place in the hearing world. She meets Marley (a child of a deaf adult) who opens her world to both the hearing and the deaf in ways she never thought possible.
Asphyxia writes in such a natural style it allows the reader to connect with all the characters and reflect on the themes and messages in the story easily.
Future Girl explores what it means to come of age as a Deaf teenager, against the backdrop of a near-future Melbourne on the brink of environmental catastrophe.
Piper's mum wants her to be 'normal', to pass as hearing and get a good job. But when peak oil hits and Melbourne lurches towards environmental catastrophe, Piper has more important things to worry about, such as how to get food.
When she meets Marley, a CODA (child of Deaf adult), a door opens into a new world - where Deafness is something to celebrate rather than hide, and where resilience is created through growing your own food rather than it being delivered on a truck.
As she dives into learning Auslan, sign language that is exquisitely beautiful and expressive, Piper finds herself falling hard for Marley. But Marley, who has grown up in the Deaf community yet is not Deaf, is struggling to find his place in the hearing world. How can they be together?
Future Girl is the art journal of sixteen-year-old Piper, a visual extravaganza of text, paint, collage and drawings, woven into a deeply engaging coming-of-age story set in near-future Melbourne.
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Future Girl by AsphyxiaMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Future Girl has so many beautiful layers to it that I took my time reading it to enjoy all the elements it had to offer.
Inclusion. First Love. Environmental Issues. Political Propaganda. Parental Expectation. Teenage Angst. Friendships.
Then on top of a strong storyline is the visual feast of supporting illustrations that are absolutely divine! The artwork is also drawn with layers of information that are just waiting to be interpreted.
The story unfolds from Piper's point of view. Piper became deaf as a young girl and struggles to find her place in the hearing world. She meets Marley (a child of a deaf adult) who opens her world to both the hearing and the deaf in ways she never thought possible.
Asphyxia writes in such a natural style it allows the reader to connect with all the characters and reflect on the themes and messages in the story easily.
Highly recommend you read this YA novel and all it has to offer.
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