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Mulitple Eisner Award Nominee, Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass features the outspoken, rebellious, and eccentric fifteen-year-old Harleen Quinzel. With five dollars to her name, shes sent to live in Gotham City after battling a lot of hard situations as a kid. But everything changes when Gothams finest drag queen, Mama, takes her in.. And at first it seems like Harleen has finally found a place to grow into her most "true true," with new best friend Ivy at Gotham High. But then Harleys fortune takes another turn when Mamas drag cabaret becomes the next victim in the wave of gentrification thats taking over the neighborhood.. Now Harleen is mad. In turning her anger into action, she is faced with two choices: join Ivy, whos campaigning to make the neighborhood a better place to live, or join The Joker, who plans to take down Gotham one corporation at a time.. From Eisner Award and Caldecott Honor-winning author Mariko Tamaki (This One Summer) and Eisner Award-nominated artist Steve Pugh (The Flintstones) comes a coming-of-age story about choices, consequences, and how a weird kid from Gotham goes about defining her world for herself.
About the Author
Mariko Tamaki is a New York Times Bestselling writer of comics and prose. Her graphic novels include Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me, with Rosemary Valero O'Connell, Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass, with Steve Pugh, Skim and This One Summer, with Jillian Tamaki. She has received Doug Wright, Eisner and Ignatz Awards as well as Caldecott and Printz Honors for her works. She has had the pleasure of working for Marvel, DC Comics, Abrams, Dark Horse and Boom Studios on various amazing superhero type things. You can read all about her adventures at marikotamaki.blogspot.com.
