Lola M. Schaefer

#2

1985

Raina Telgemeier’s #1 New York Times bestselling, Eisner Award-winning companion to Smile! Raina can't wait to be a big sister. But once Amara is born, things aren't quite how she expected them to be. Amara is cute, but she's also a cranky, grouchy baby, and mostly prefers to play by herself. Their relationship doesn't improve much over the years, but when a baby brother enters the picture and later, something doesn't seem right between their parents, they realize they must figure out how to get along. They are sisters, after all.Raina uses her signature humor and charm in both present-day narrative and perfectly placed flashbacks to tell the story of her relationship with her sister, which unfolds during the course of a road trip from their home in San Francisco to a family reunion in Colorado.

#3

Laura discovers the delight of love with her cousin, Hugo. It is not an easy relationship, and it is complicated by Hugo's wife, Rachel, by his wild sister, Susie, and by his adolescent son, Oliver, who is half in love with Laura himself. As the relationship deepens, Laura becomes obsessed with a major new project—a commission to sculpt the Stations of the Cross for a church in Liverpool; she becomes deeply involved with Hug's family and in the antagonisms within it—between Hugo and Susie, between Hugo and his son. At the end of this subtle and moving novel, Laura is again the outsider, but she has explored new depths of living, found new dimensions of sorrow and of joy.