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A memoir made while Schrag was still in high school, Potential is an honest, rambling, obsessive narrative of high school angst, with a potential of its own peeking through. The story starts as Schrag comes to terms with the fact that she only likes girls, and then moves into her first failed foray at a relationship, the loss of her virginity and the ups and downs of her first serious lesbian relationship. The plot is bumpy; some segments are awkwardly inserted and lack significant resolution, such as the section focusing on Schrag's attempt to lose her virginity to a guy friend. While an important episode of her adolescence, the segment seems isolated within the larger narrative of Schrag's relationship with her girlfriend, Sally, which is well developed and poignant. The art is very impressive for a comic made by an artist still in high school and matures over the course of the book. The emotional depth of the characters is depicted through vivid and fluid expressions, and Schrag uses different styles to illustrate varying states of consciousness. Schrag's later works are more mature and better formed, but this coming-of-age story amply displays the emotional uncertainty of adolescence. (May)
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Elizabeth Vincentelli, Village Voice
One of the secrets of Potential's appeal is that it cannily combines the drive, raunch, and imagination of the best fiction with near-anthropological realness...a mesmerizing read... a nakedly honets exploation of desire and the whole range of emotions it can set offf...hilarious frankness and a wickedly addictive sense of storytelling... Potential remains a vibrant testament to a year that was both lovely as a kiss and hard as a stone.
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A memoir made while Schrag was still in high school, Potential is an honest, rambling, obsessive narrative of high school angst, with a potential of its own peeking through. The story starts as Schrag comes to terms with the fact that she only likes girls, and then moves into her first failed foray at a relationship, the loss of her virginity and the ups and downs of her first serious lesbian relationship. The plot is bumpy; some segments are awkwardly inserted and lack significant resolution, such as the section focusing on Schrag's attempt to lose her virginity to a guy friend. While an important episode of her adolescence, the segment seems isolated within the larger narrative of Schrag's relationship with her girlfriend, Sally, which is well developed and poignant. The art is very impressive for a comic made by an artist still in high school and matures over the course of the book. The emotional depth of the characters is depicted through vivid and fluid expressions, and Schrag uses different styles to illustrate varying states of consciousness. Schrag's later works are more mature and better formed, but this coming-of-age story amply displays the emotional uncertainty of adolescence. (May)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Elizabeth Vincentelli, Village Voice
One of the secrets of Potential's appeal is that it cannily combines the drive, raunch, and imagination of the best fiction with near-anthropological realness...a mesmerizing read... a nakedly honets exploation of desire and the whole range of emotions it can set offf...hilarious frankness and a wickedly addictive sense of storytelling... Potential remains a vibrant testament to a year that was both lovely as a kiss and hard as a stone.
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