She’s terrible at making friends.” In her treatment of illness and death, Telgemeier ( Sisters) nudges readers toward the edge of their comfort zone, but she never leaves them alone there. “José,” Maya tells a child ghost, “if I die, Cat will be all alone. The complex relationship between the sisters is richly drawn-each feels almost unbearable compassion for the other’s weakness.
They worry, grieve, and make jokes, and it’s in learning to interact with them that Cat and Maya start to face the possibility that Maya might die. Telgemeier’s floaty, sea green, protoplasmic beings are just as appealing as her human characters. Can’t hold it in, gotta shout.” The village is obsessed with ghosts their neighbor gives ghost tours, and there’s an annual Día de los Muertos celebration. While Cat is the worrier in the family, chronically ill Maya is an irrepressible optimist, her zest captured in the lyrics of her favorite song: “Let it out, let it out. Telgemeier’s stirring graphic novel opens on moving day, as Cat’s family travels from Southern California to Bahía de la Luna, a foggy village up the coast Cat’s younger sister, Maya, has cystic fibrosis and needs the sea air.
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