Tanya is an awkward, artistic teen growing up on an island outpost on a distant planet called Mehra.
Tanya is the first human child born on Earth’s first extra-solar colony. Unfortunately, a mysterious event in the recent past has made all technology useless, so she has grown up in a primitive environment of traumatized colonists, who are struggling to make do. She tries to make the best of it, taking care of her sick mother, doing chores, going to school, the only bright spot is her friendship with Licorice, her rebellious and out-of-control best friend.
All this changes when she witnesses a mysterious glowing object shooting across the sky, thought to be the orbiting mother ship falling out of orbit. Tanya is determined to go on the expedition that sets out to find the ship, in the hope of finding an explanation for the disastrous event years before.
Tangled River is a 316 page color science fiction coming of age story. Available in English and Italian.
A graphic novel by Michael Cohen