Drop everything right now and go read this! Navigating with You by Jeremy Whitley, Cassio Ribeiro, and Nikki Foxrobot is a graphic novel set in North Carolina! It follows two girls who become best friends and then girlfriends, Neesha and Gabby. Neesha just moved from New York after her parents divorced. She also has cerebral palsy and is an ambulatory wheelchair user . Gabby just moved from Florida after her father got a new job. She also has PTSD. The two girls become friends through bonding over hunting down the volumes of, and rereading, their favorite childhood manga: Navigator Nozomi. It's a very slice of life-ish story of the girls having fun as regular anime-loving friends do, and dealing with their trauma by learning to get vulnerable and communicate more openly with each other. If you couldn't already tell, this book had everything that I love: an ethnically diverse cast, sapphic romance, anime references, fandom culture, and mental health repre...
