As she struggles to fall out of love and figure out how to “break up with someone who’s broken up with me,” Freddy slowly begins to be drawn back into Laura’s orbit, challenging her relationships with her friends as she searches for happiness. After Laura breaks up with her for a third time, Freddy writes to an advice columnist and, at the recommendation of her best friend Doodle, (reluctantly) sees a psychic who advises her that in order to break out of the cycle of her “non-monogamous swing-your-partner wormhole,” Freddy needs to do the breaking up herself. Laura cheats on Freddy, gaslights and emotionally manipulates her, and fetishizes her.
But while Freddy’s friends are always supportive of her, they can’t understand why she stays with Laura. Maybe it's Freddy, who is rapidly losing her friends, including Doodle, who needs her now more than ever.įortunately for Freddy, there are new friends, and the insight of advice columnists like Anna Vice to help her through being a teenager in love.A 17-year-old struggles to navigate friendship and finding herself while navigating a toxic relationship.īiracial (East Asian and white) high schooler Freddy is in love with white Laura Dean. But Laura Dean keeps coming back, and as their relationship spirals further out of her control, Freddy has to wonder if it's really Laura Dean that's the problem. Reeling from her latest break up, Freddy's best friend, Doodle, introduces her to the Seek-Her, a mysterious medium, who leaves Freddy some cryptic parting words: break up with her. There's just one problem: Laura Dean is maybe not the greatest girlfriend. Laura Dean, the most popular girl in high school, was Frederica Riley's dream girl: charming, confident, and SO cute. One of Bitch Media's Best Queer YA Novels of 2019Īuthor Mariko Tamaki and illustrator Rosemary Valero-O'Connell bring to life a sweet and spirited tale of young love in Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me, a graphic novel that asks us to consider what happens when we ditch the toxic relationships we crave to embrace the healthy ones we need.
One of FORBES Best Graphic Novels of 2019
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