Here Is a Good Place

Ana Pessoa & Joana Estrela

This notebook is a journal. This journal is a place. A place where Ana Pessoa’s words and Joana Estrela’s illustrations get together. A certain kind of graphic journal, written and drawn in four hands, where we can find Gloomy Teresa’s notes and thoughts — about her family, her friends and her school, dreams and birds, quotes she overheard at home or on the streets, about freedom and the future, the night, the wind. And also her spontaneous drawings of cats, pots, people, hangers or views from her window, which cross Teresa’s path each day.

Press voices

“The puzzle isn’t yet complete, but with the pieces that we have we’ve got enough to follow Teresa’s last year at high school, to know who her best friend is, to expose jealousy, to notice body image issues, to witness family tensions and ties, to accompany new discoveries, and to sense, as the school year goes on, that perhaps there’s something in the air. There’s no doubt about it – something is changing.” Andreia Brites, Blimunda magazine

“Ana Pessoa is one of the most original voices in the present panorama of literature aimed young adult readers. She’s not afraid to experiment – without resorting to thematic shocks – nor to explore the powerful truth which vibrates in the most everyday situations. (…) Here, we have an absolutely beautiful graphic novel which is complete in its simplicity and also quite contemporary.” PezLinterna

“This is a diary (…) which deals with friendship, identity, family, social relationships. All quite straightforward. However, what the reader learns about Cheerless Teresa, or Peerless Teresa, is remarkable for precisely the way that it is revealed. That’s what is magic and mysterious in this book.” Plano Nacional de Leitura

Books by Ana Pessoa