Passport
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4.7 • 3 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
An unforgettable graphic memoir by debut talent Sophia Glock reveals her discovery as a teenager that her parents are agents working for the CIA.
Young Sophia has lived in so many different countries, she can barely keep count. Stationed now with her family in Central America because of her parents' work, Sophia feels displaced as an American living abroad, when she has hardly spent any of her life in America.
Everything changes when she reads a letter she was never meant to see and uncovers her parents' secret. They are not who they say they are. They are working for the CIA. As Sophia tries to make sense of this news, and the web of lies surrounding her, she begins to question everything. The impact that this has on Sophia's emerging sense of self and understanding of the world makes for a page-turning exploration of lies and double lives.
In the hands of this extraordinary graphic storyteller, this astonishing true story bursts to life.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Glock's subtly crafted, emotive graphic memoir explores themes of belonging, identity, and loyalty in a highly specific context: teen life as the child of CIA spies. Sophia and her American siblings, cued white, have grown up in series of Central American countries but "haven't lived anywhere long enough to be from there." Their parents have mysterious jobs that require high security homes, and they're vague about the reasons behind strict rules and regular moves. As Sophia's older sister leaves for college and Sophia begins to parse the reasons behind her parents' reserve, the teen tires of seclusion and starts keeping secrets of her own as part of her budding independence. Sophia's disillusionment unfolds in hues of purple and peach against a backdrop of hurricanes and a military coup. Packaging meals for hurricane victims, she hears about mass graves, juxtaposing her actions' impact against the scale of the churning world around her. She wonders, "Does someone keep secrets because they're a spy? Or do they become a spy because they know how to keep secrets?" Moving to the U.S., she starts over anew, still a fish out of water, but with a newfound sense of her own resilience. Ages 12–up.
