Tina’s Mouth: an Existential Comic Diary by Keshni Kashyap, illustrations by Mari Araki (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012). Tina Malhotra, a sophomore at the Yarborough Academy in Southern California, creates an existential diary for an assignment in which she tries to determine who she is and where she fits in. (Grades 9-12)
Award Status: Highly Commended, 2013
Author: Keshni Kashyap
Illustrator: Mari Araki
Read more and purchase on the publisher’s website.
