![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Each has motivations aplenty to push them through succeeding volumes.Īs the story progresses, parents and friends misunderstand each other, though their misunderstandings would be easy to lay to rest with communication. Clever, detailed illustrations use a muted color palette and the play of shadows, keeping focus on the emotive facial expressions of the well-wrought cast, which is made up of people of color. Jake’s burgeoning superpowers are engaged without ignoring his identity as a teenager struggling with school, friendship, and love. When all of these secrets come to a head, Jake is left figuring out whom he can trust. Jake also applies to the University of Miami in secret, hoping to study oceanography despite his father’s death by drowning many years prior. Maria hides her secret crush on Jake Jake hides his secret crush on Kenny, one of the few openly gay students at their high school. ![]() But the scars are only one of Jake’s secrets. In You Brought Me the Ocean, Lambda-award winner Alex Sanchez’s fast-moving graphic novel, strange scars line Jake’s arms, and no one except his mother knows they react in water, not even his best friend Maria. ![]()
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