The Good Times Are Killing Me

Download or read book The Good Times are Killing Me written by Lynda Barry and published by Drawn & Quarterly. This book was released on 2020-08-28 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lynda Barry’s classic heartbreaking and heartwarming coming of age novella back in print Young Edna Arkins lives in a neighborhood that is rapidly changing, thanks to white flight from urban Seattle in the late 1960s. As the world changes around her, Edna is exposed to the callous racism of adults—sometimes subtle and other times blatant, but always stinging. By weaving the importance of music in adolescence with the forbidden friendship between Edna, who is white, and Bonna Willis, who is Black, Lynda Barry captures the earnest, awkward, yet always honest adolescent voice as perfectly in prose as she does in comics.