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    Rich, Colorful 'Afar' Reimagines The Magical Girl

    Leila del Duca and Kit Seaton's new novel follows a young girl in a richly-imagined North Africa-flavored fantasy world, who discovers she has the power to dream herself into different bodies.
    by Etelka Lehoczky Apr 06, 2017 2 minutes
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    There are a lot of magical girls in both comics and young adult fiction, but the heroine of Leila del Duca's graphic novel is different from all of them. Boetema is far more down-to-earth than the sprites who populate "magical girl"-themed Japanese manga, and her gift is more cryptic than those of such recent YA heroines as the winged Ava in 2014's and Sarah Raughley's Effigies in last year's . The ambiguous nature of Boetema's ability, and the strangely diffuse quality of her whole story, indicate that del Duca has a subtler project afoot than simply inspiring girls to dream of mystical triumphs.

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