Friday at Zenda. Friday of youth literature. This Friday spotlights Soy (Barrett). This text by Florencia del Campo, under the title Soy Linda, was a finalist for the El Barco de Vapor Prize 2011 from SM Editorial (Argentina). This edition, revised, updated, and enhanced by the wonderful drawings of illustrator María Luque, gives us the chance to present a text that could once have been taboo for openly addressing the topic of abortion, but which now feels urgent.
In the publisher’s own words: “Lola is half immigrant, half orphan, feminist, aware, contradictory, cinephile, sister and friend, yet she still has much to discover about what she is, what she thinks she is and wants to be; about what she feels and about her identity. On the cusp of adulthood and with the need for financial independence and experimentation, she decides with her best friend to travel to a coastal city to look for summer work. This initiatory journey will force them to confront themselves. SOY is a young adult novel in which writer Florencia del Campo and illustrator María Luque have joined forces to brilliantly narrate the transition into adulthood and the discovery of one’s own identity, hiding on its cover a fun board game that might sound familiar to you: “Who Am I?””.
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Author: Florencia del Campo. Illustrator: María Luque. Title: Soy. Publisher: Barrett. Sales: All Your Books