by Michel Rabagliati
This sweet and funny coming-of-age story marks a high point of great old-fashioned storytelling in graphic novels. This book tells the story of Paul, a Montreal teenager who, against the backdrop of Quebec in the 1970s, tastes the freedom and responsibilities of adulthood for the first time. Thanks to plummeting grades, Paul defiantly quits high school and takes a job at factory. A year later, tired and depressed, Paul accepts a strange job offer to be a counselor at a summer camp run by a freewheeling Catholic priest. At a camp in the Laurentians, Paul finds himself guiding a motley band of kids--misfits, loners, and troublemakers--through the rough terrain of growing up. (You can see a short preview of the book's contents by going here.)
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