Features & Reviews

Park is not being cheeky. Rather, she’s taking a power that has lived in the hearts and minds of so many young people and propelling the magical girl genre into an entirely new dimension.

[Valencia] portrays both the beauty and the horror of the desert, its landscape, and its inhabitants with the keen eye of someone who is intimately familiar with the rhythms and realities of desert life.

“You’ll be my way out. . . . And it makes no difference what you’re thinking or feeling, or whether or not you believe in transcendence or whatever you call it. I’m already inside of you.”

By insisting that Ezra’s ordinary life is epic, Sax shows that every life must be epic, holding everyone accountable. No one can sit out.