Father-daughter team Ethan and Naomi Sacks have teamed up with artist Marco Lorenzana for the new graphic novel A Haunted Girl. The graphic follows a 16-year-old and her real-world mental health struggles and will contain resources on suicide prevention and a guide for free therapy access options. The book was read for sensitivity and to confirm the authenticity of the experience of mental health issues by AFSP and the American Psychiatric Association. Look for A Haunted Girl Tuesday May, 21, 2024.
Here’s the official synopsis:
In A Haunted Girl, readers meet Cleo, a 16-year-old adopted Japanese-American whose anxiety and depression drives her to suicidal thoughts, is fresh out of the hospital and trying unsuccessfully to reintegrate back into her old life. What she doesn’t know is that her real struggles are just beginning as she finds herself encountering an increasingly terrifying succession of ghosts. Is she losing her grip on reality… or is the explanation much, much worse? A Haunted Girl channels terrors—both otherworldly and real-life—that come with anxiety and depression.
