As Mika begins to find her place at Nowhere House

she draws an important historical line from abolition to suffrage to civil rights to contemporary young activists--filling in the blanks of the American suffrage story

with wide contemplative eyes and an embroidered shy expression

and the rewards that come with staying true to who you are

In this spellbinding graphic novel debut

After Life Children's Humor As Mika begins to find"After Life is a masterful tale about a family coping with loss, showing the way grief affects us and people we don't even know in ways we don't see. Once I met Amber and her family, I didn't want to let them go." Brigid Kemmerer, New York Times bestselling author of Carving Shadows into Stone "Forman is a master at making her readers fall in lovewith a girl whose life is over, with a community of people in a small town who are barely surviving her