Diary of a teenage girl

Blurb

The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures is a diaristic graphic novel by author and artist Phoebe Gloeckner. It is notable for its hybrid form, composed of both prose and "comics" passages, each contributing to the narrative.
First published in 2002, the book has been called "autobiography" or "semi-autobiography."
The story is told by its protagonist Minnie Goetze, a 15-year-old girl living in San Francisco, CA. The year is 1976, and Minnie, the daughter of a young single mother, loses her virginity to her mother's boyfriend, and soon thereafter begins writing obsessively in her diary. As she careens towards coming-of-age, she searches for love but confounds it with sex. The book presents a complex and jarring look into the interior life of an adolescent girl, and has been described as raw and disturbing, not only because of its subject matter, but because of Minnie's frank and precociously intelligent point of view and commentary on the lives of the adults in her midst.
Whitney Joiner of Salon.com wrote, "[The Diary of a Teenage Girl] is one of the most brutally honest, shocking, tender and beautiful portrayals of growing up female in America.”