Honoria: A Fortuitous Friendship by Shapiro, Janice

Honoria: A Fortuitous Friendship

When Ida is sent away for the summer to stay with the Murphys -- friends of her...
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Author: Janice Shapiro
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Honoria: A Fortuitous Friendship by Shapiro, Janice

Honoria: A Fortuitous Friendship

$107.99 $59.98

Honoria: A Fortuitous Friendship

$107.99 $59.98
Author: Janice Shapiro
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
When Ida is sent away for the summer to stay with the Murphys -- friends of her father, but also of Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald -- she travels from New York to France and, unknowingly, into the artistic epicenter of 1929. There, she meets their haughty, sullen, and precocious daughter, Honoria, and wonders if she can be friends with the prettiest girl in the whole world. In the "perfect inverted world" of adults, one of constant play and leisure -- and inebriation, of course -- it's the children who most acutely perceive the pervasive unhappiness bubbling beneath the surface gaiety.

Achingly sad and effortlessly funny, full of the kind of youthful sincerity unclouded by pretenses of age, short story writer and cartoonist Janice Shapiro's debut graphic novel, Honoria, is the complex story of the education of two young girls who have started moving slowly into womanhood.



Author: Janice Shapiro
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Published: 04/01/2025
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.90lbs
Size: 10.10h x 8.10w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9798875000553


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/28/2025
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2025

About the Author
Shapiro, Janice: - Janice Shapiro is the author of Bummer and Other Stories (Soft Skull Press, 2010). Her stories and comics have been published in The Rumpus, Catapult, The North American Review, Electric Literature, The Santa Monica Review, and Everyday Genius, among other periodicals and journals. Her graphic essay "Good Grief" was included in The Peanuts Papers (Library of America, 2019); another graphic essay, "Crushable-Neil Young," appeared in Crush: Writers Reflect on Life, Longing and the Power of Their First Celebrity Crush (HarperCollins, 2016). Janice lives in Berkeley, California with her husband and dog.

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