Hey, it's NPR's book at the day. I'm Andrew Limbaugh. I really loved the book we're going to tell you about today. It's a graphic novel titled Roaming by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki. You might remember them from their graphic novel this one summer from a while back. Anyway, this book is about these three college-aged women who go to New York for the first time.

Stuff goes down and personal conflicts play out. But what's great about this book is how it retains

some of the wide-eyedness of being 19, you know, both in how they deal with each other,

but also how they interface with the city around them. You know, I'm bored and

raised in New York, so I never got to see the city from that perspective. And in this interview

with NPR's Aisha Rusco, the Tomaki cousins talk about why they specifically chose to set their story,

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New York City, baby. the city of dreams, big lights and bustling streets.

I remember going to New York City in college, and I was such a wild child.

I went to the Macy's and I got this big old Grover for the Macy's Day parade and it was just wild times for me.

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