The Horn Book Guide

OLDER FICTION

Kim, Derek Kirk

Good as Lily

148 pp. | DC/Minx | August, 2007 | Paper ISBN 978-1-4012-1381-7 $9.99

(2) YA Illustrated by Jesse Hamm. Grace Kwon is blithely celebrating her eighteenth birthday when three visitors arrive: herself at ages six, twenty-nine, and seventy. Grace must resolve her three principal issues--self-esteem, loneliness, uselessness--to return life to normal. Occasionally overburdened with message, this graphic novel is strongest when it eschews sentiment. The black-and-white illustrations are notable for the sense of comedic timing embedded in the panel pacing.

Reviewer: Claire E. Gross | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2007