Snapdragon by kat leyh5/10/2023 ![]() In bright, dynamic art, Leyh packs Snapdragon’s world with an array of wonderful characters, full of quirks and contradictions, who represent a variety of ethnicities, sexualities, and gender expressions. ![]() She also discovers that Jacks is deeply connected to her own family-and just might be an actual witch. As the self-possessed girl develops an interest in vertebrate anatomy, she spends time in her trailer park home evolving a meaningful friendship with trans neighbor Lu, honing an interest in frightening tales, and navigating the fallout of her hardworking single mother’s most recent relationship. The purported witch, an older woman named Jacks who raced motorcycles in her youth, makes a deal with Snapdragon-Jacks will help Snapdragon care for the possums if Snapdragon helps Jacks with her work harvesting road kill, then cleaning and selling the articulated skeletons online. ![]() The next day, encountering a dead opossum mother and her living babies, Snapdragon takes them back to the house for help. When middle schooler Snapdragon’s dog goes missing, Snapdragon dares to enter the house of a reputed witch and finds the hound recuperating from an accident. ![]()
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