Two books reflect on the highs and lows of adolescence

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🗓️ 18 August 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Today's episode focuses on very different experiences of the teenage years. First, NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Christine Suggs about their new graphic novel, ¡Ay, Mija!, inspired by Suggs' formative trip to Mexico to understand their parents' upbringing and reconnect with their family and culture. Then, NPR's Rachel Martin sits down with psychologist Lisa Damour to discuss her new book, The Emotional Lives of Teenagers. They discuss the stresses and anxieties young people deal with – especially as a result of the pandemic – and how parents can help manage these intense feelings.

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0:00.0	I'm Linda Holmes. Welcome to NPR's Book of the Day. We've got two very different books today about feeling at ease in the world when you're young. In a bit, we'll hear from a psychologist whose new book is about raising healthy teenagers through their sometimes stormy emotional lives. But first, a graphic novel called I Miha about a teenager named Christine. Christine takes a trip from their home in Texas to Mexico to visit their grandparents. The book's writer and illustrator Christine Suggs talked to NPR's Scott Simon about how it feels to write a book about your teenage self and the struggles you had fitting in. And since the book's
0:38.4	subtitle refers to Christine's bilingual summer, they talk, too, about choosing not to translate
0:44.1	the Spanish in the book. That way, the readers who don't speak Spanish can sit with that experience,
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1:32.4	Christine Suggs has taken pages from their own life to tell the story of a 16-year-old
1:38.8	Christine who takes a trip to visit their grandparents and aunt in Mexico.
1:44.4	But they don't speak Spanish, they don't know the city, and they don't feel that they fit in.
1:50.0	Not in Mexico?
1:51.6	Not really back home in Texas either.
1:55.0	I'm Mia, my bilingual summer in Mexico is the graphic novel from Christine Suggs, an illustrator and comic artist,
2:01.9	who joined us now from Dallas.
2:03.9	Thanks so much for being with us.
2:05.6	Thanks for having me.
2:06.8	Is this you, Christine?
2:08.7	Are you two Christine's?
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