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I Was a Teenage Fairy
by Francesca Lia Block
I chose this book from a short list of novels that were compared to the anime/manga Nana. I can confirm if you love the story and vibe of Nana this book is perfect but it’s also so much more. The realism woven into this fairytale was remarkable coming from a little girl who believed in fairies and magic and wanted to run away with a bad boy to the big city. Barbie means the world to me, her recklessness, her passion, her stupidity, her teenagery-ness, it felt like I was transported back into my silly, complex 16 yr old mind. Nostalgic is the best word to describe how I felt reading this in my cheap college bedroom. All I could think was “I want a Mab” but I have one, we all do. Every woman has had a Mab it’s whether or not we kept the magic, the love, in us or we simply let it slip away. Mab is so many things metaphorically represented as a venomous winged creature. She is the teenage hormones, the coping mechanisms needed by a child to understand the complexity of sexual assault, the vessel for a young girl’s creative passion in a stifled home, the innocence, the not-so-innocent, she is everything a little girl is and will become. To say I loved this book is an understatement. No matter who you are I encourage you to be patient as you fall into this book. It is slow and messy but so is growing up.