This One Summer

I don't know if this really needs a trigger warning, but I'mma put one anyway, because this seems to be something a lot of people I know and love are dealing with: though the main perspective is from Rose, a teenage girl, it's clear that Rose's mother is having a hard time with her marriage and identity through her desire (and inability) to have another child, and all the struggles that go on with that desire.

The artwork is gorgeous; I kept being awed by how the artist was able to capture such tiny moments and expressions. This book is mostly about growing up, those awkward early teen years when you want to understand the world and don't entirely get it yet; you have crushes on inappropriate people and talk to your best friend about sex and boys and whether your boobs will ever come in, and you try to appear more grown up than you are even though really you need your family and want everything to be okay when it's not.

If I could give it 4.5 stars, I would. This was wonderful.