the road to god knows...
The road to god knows... is the story of Marie, a teenage girl coming to grips with her Mom's schizophrenia. There's no handbook, no guide to help her deal with what life throws at her. As a result, she's struggling to grow up fast; wrestling with poverty, loneliness, and her Mom's illness every step of the way.
Betty, Marie's Mom, can't help; she's living with an illness that's slowly getting worse and increasingly frightening, and she just doesn't have the resources left over at the end of the day to help Marie. With her Mom absorbed in her own problems, Marie is essentially alone while she learns to deal with the chaos in her young life.
Marie's youth makes it that much harder for her to cope?as a teenager, she just doesn't have the life experience to feel confident about her decisions. At the start of the story, we see a scared young girl, uncertain and overwhelmed, but as Betty collapses into a full nervous breakdown, Marie is forced to examine herself and her life and come to a decision: does she continue to be a child, reacting to what's happening around her? Or does she take control of her life, come what may?
In the end, galvanized by a positive event that she orchestrated herself, Marie makes a bold decision about the direction of her life?she chooses to control her destiny and grow up. By the last page of the story, we see the makings of a confident young woman, determined to counter every punch that life throws at her.
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These three short stories feature Marie, the main character from my book, as a young girl.
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- "The road to god knows..." is an original graphic novel that tells the story of Marie, a teenage girl coming to grips with her Mom%uFFFDs schizophrenia. The story will be serialized as a webcomic on girlamatic.com. The ISBN is 978-0-9781237-0-3.
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Wahoo Morris Book One
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Some of my favourites from Astro Books in Montreal
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The Outer Limits
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