Ghost World is a graphic novel by Daniel Clowes about the relationship between a couple of teenage girls. The two girls spend time at home and in their communities talking about their friends and their own lives. Enid and Rebecca spend time together complaining about their lives and the oddities of the friends and strangers who pass their paths. The girls create stories for people they see in restaurants and on the street and occasionally make prank calls. Much of their discussions are about their love lives or the lack of their conquests.
Ghost World is explicit about masturbation and sex and the girls find themselves wondering if the are lesbians or not. The language is graphic and the girls are cruel in their criticisms of friends and strangers alike. This book is probably a close parallel to the lives of some girls, but I find it very dark and depressing. This book has a place in a library if not to show that other girls have the same thoughts and concerns as the two characters in this book, but it also allows teens to look at themselves from the outside to lay a critical eye on their own thoughts and behaviours.
Glowes, D. (1997). Ghost World. Seattle, WA : Fantagraphics Books.
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