Anya’s Ghost by Vera Brosgol | Review

Brosgol, Vera. Anya’s Ghost. New York: First Second, 2011.

This graphic novel is about Anya, a first generation Russian immigrant, and the challenges she faces with making friends at her American private school, navigating her crush on a popular athlete, and negotiating with a ninety-year-old ghost that is haunting her.

Anya's Ghost by Vera Brogol
Anya’s Ghost by Vera Brosgol

When Anya accidentally falls down a hole in a field early on in the story, she meets a ghost, Emily, who has been inhabiting the hole for a long time. When Anya is found and rescued from the hole in the ground, she accidentally brings Emily along with her.

Emily makes herself useful at first by whispering answers to test questions in Anya’s ear and feeding her tidbits of information about Sean, her crush. But soon her encouragement turns to middling.

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Anya’s task is to find out how to rid herself of Emily and also answer questions about her identity as an American, a a Russian, and as a friend.

I enjoyed this book. It was a super quick read, and the story was concise and interesting. I think it’s also deceptive because it seems so simple but when you analyze it there’s more meaning there.

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Sarah S. Davis is the founder of Broke by Books, a blog about her journey as a schizoaffective disorder bipolar type writer and reader. Sarah's writing about books has appeared on Book Riot, Electric Literature, Kirkus Reviews, BookRags, PsychCentral, and more. She has a BA in English from the University of Pennsylvania, a Master of Library and Information Science from Clarion University, and an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts.

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