Mariko Tamaki is a Canadian writer of comics and prose. She co-created This One Summer with Jillian Tamaki and Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me with Rosemary Valero-O'Connell; both works received Eisner Awards and Michael L. Printz Honors. She also writes superhero stories for Marvel and DC Comics and lives in Oakland.
Rose returns to Awago Beach for the summer expecting the familiar rituals of the lake house and time with her younger friend Windy. Instead, her parents are fighting, her mother has withdrawn, and the girls become absorbed in the lives of older teenagers facing a crisis of their own. Written by Mariko Tamaki and illustrated by Jillian Tamaki, the graphic novel follows Rose at the unsettled edge of adolescence as family strain, secrets, and new awareness reshape a place she thought she understood.
Print · First Second · 2014-05-06 · English ISBN 9781596437746
eBook · First Second · 2014-05-06 · English ISBN 9781466858503
A boy, a murder, a girl, a secret. From award-winning author Mariko Tamaki comes Cold, a haunting YA novel about a shocking homicide in a quiet town and four students who knew too much and said too little. This is the story of a boy who died—and a girl who wants to know why. Todd Mayer is dead. Now he's some sort of ghost, hovering over his body, which has just been found in the town park, naked and frozen in the snow. As detectives investigate Todd's homicide, talking to the very people who are responsible for how he died, Todd replays the events that lead him to his end in the park. Georgia didn't know Todd. But she can't stop thinking about him. Maybe it's because they're both outcasts at their school, or because they're both queer. It might also be because Georgia has a feeling she's seen Todd somewhere before, somewhere he wasn't supposed to be. In the vein of The Lovely Bones, this dual narrative is told through the voices of Todd in his afterlife and Georgia as she uncovers the truth behind his death, resulting in an immersive, emotional, and provocative read.
