SayFair Books

So Punk Rock
(And Other Ways to Disappoint Your Mother)
By Micol Ostow; Art by David Ostow
$9.95 pb

Sister-brother, author-artist team present this original, funny and cutting edge prose-graphic hybrid novel. In an effort to become cool, Ari Abramson starts a band with three other teens from his suburban Jewish day school. They are more white bread than an authentic independent band, but after a one-song gig at a friend's Bar Mitzvah ---a ska version of Hava Nagilah, the band's popularity erupts overnight. Now Ari is facing a minefield of inflated egos, misplaced romance and the shallowness of indie-rock elitism. Peppered with witty and entertaining graphics, as well as an amusing Glossary of Jewish, Musical and Otherwise Esoteric Terms, So Punk Rock will appeal to guy and girl teenagers alike.

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