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201 pp.
| Atheneum/Seo
| November, 2008
|
TradeISBN 978-1-4169-1396-2$17.99
(3)
YA
Although Miya lives in Japan and Chelsea is in Los Angeles, the two forge a strange but solid bond through blog posts. They're united by a shared obsession with manga and the "Gothic Lolita" subculture, which is clarified, somewhat, by sporadically interspersed ethereal black-and-white photographs. The text's stream-of-conscious style can be hard to follow but will ensnare its intended audience.