Forgiveness never falls from heaven of its own accord
June Lusparian hovers on the border of adulthood, searching Paradise High School for a hint of hope.
She falls for cheer captain, Beverly, who awakens June’s secret gift of music. As their nascent romance grows, they face a dark world on the verge of explosion.
Red as Blue
a hybrid graphic novel by Ji Strangeway
Illustrated by Juan Fleites
15-year-old June Lusparian is an outcast caught between worlds. Half Mexican and half Armenian, June hovers on the border of adulthood, searching the streets of Paradise and the halls of Paradise High for signs of redemption – symptoms of life.
She longs to carve open her own space to find a beating heart in a barren world. Only her secret gift for music offers a hint of hope.
When she falls for blonde, cool girl Beverly, captain of the Spirit Girls cheer squad, June hopes she may at last have found that one true thing. But as their nascent romance grows, June learns true connection requires more than a bond of pain and the ache of desire.
Paradise is more than an idea, more than a town. And forgiveness never falls from heaven of its own accord.
Set in a fictional desert town in 1980s Colorado, RED AS BLUEis a moment of eternal tension on the verge of explosion.
With a unique, genre-bending style that is sometimes lyrical, sometimes sharp as a razor’s edge, and always engaging; Ji Strangeway paints word-pictures of the volatile world between worlds in which June struggles to find relevance and worth at Paradise High.
But June’s Paradise is on life-support, barely breathing. Will death be the only answer?
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Poignant and Powerful
– AfterEllen
Intense moments of Lightness and Darkness
– Nerdy Girl Express
The throwback tale of an angsty, teen girl who stumbles her way through her sexuality and the repercussions of a small town mentality is chock full of quippy one-liners, gorgeous graphic artwork, and edgy sex scenes.
One of the most unique, powerful, and quite frankly, goddamn gorgeous books I’ve read in years
– The Fandomentals
It’s like Riverdale and The End of the F *** ing World merged, but this would not do it justice.
– Lesbicanarias
Ji Strangeway Brings Back the Dark Ages with Red as Blue
The best way to come out is to just be yourself.
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ISBN13: 9780998877808
ISBN10: 0998877808
“Red as Blue is about the power of love rather than the love of power”
– JI STRANGEWAY, Author