BookPeople Presents: Iasmin Omar Ata - Wallflower: A Graphic Novel

Please welcome Iasmin Omar Ata in conversation with Gabriela Epstein to celebrate Wallflower: A Graphic Novel!

This event is free and open to the public.

• Start time: 6:00 P.M.
• Run time: 45-60 minutes, followed by a signing line.
• Location: The second floor of BookPeople.

The author will be signing and personalizing copies of the book after the speaking portion of the event.

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About the book:

From the author of the critically acclaimed Nayra and the Djinn comes a stunning graphic novel about a girl who must uncover the truth behind her strange visions.

For as long as Marlena can remember, she has seen flowers growing on everyone she meets: personalized poppies and daisies and roses of every color that give away what their owners truly feel. Invisible to the rest of the world, the flowers have always felt too overwhelming, too much for Marlena to take in when they don't always match what their owner shows. She’s long since given up convincing anyone else that they’re there.

Until she meets Ashe, a charming transfer student who can somehow see these mysterious flowers, too. Unfortunately for Marlena, Ashe wants nothing to do with her. But as their thorny connection blooms, so do hidden secrets buried years ago. In this stunning graphic novel where dreams are woven into reality and not everything is as it seems, Marlena and Ashe must unfold the truth together, no matter where it may lead.

About the author:

Iasmin Omar Ata is an intersectional comics artist, illustrator, and game designer. Iasmin focuses on creating art centered around the themes of coping with illness, understanding identity, and dismantling oppressive structures.

About the moderator:

Gabriela Epstein is a New York Times, Publishers Weekly, ABA, and USA Today bestselling cartoonist based in Austin, Texas. Originally from Philadelphia, she studied oil painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and later pursued a degree in illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design. After graduating, she worked as a character designer for 2D animation. She quickly transitioned into publishing, adapting two Baby-Sitters Club graphic novels for Scholastic Graphix, as well as cocreating and illustrating the award-winning bilingual graphic novel Invisible. Epstein is currently writing and illustrating the sequel to the graphic novel Danny Phantom: A Glitch in Time, the continuation of the television series for Abrams Books and Nickelodeon.

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