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Diary of a Teenage Girl is a graphic memoir that follows a young woman’s life in the late 1970s. Through a series of diary entries and quick, expressive comic panels, the artist exposes the emotional highs and lows of adolescence—friendships, family pressures, and identity struggles—while offering a vivid, autobiographical visual record.
First publish date: 2002
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels/Graphic Fiction
Authors: Phoebe Gloeckner
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