Puss Reboots: Blog: June 2024: Meet Me on Mercer Street

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Meet Me on Mercer Street: 06/01/24

Meet Me on Mercer Street by Booki Vivat (2024) is a graphic novel about a young artist's observations of her neighborhood as it struggles against gentrification. Kacie lives with her parents above the family's laundromat. Her BFF's family runs the local grocery store. Then at the start of summer, her friend is gone and the store is replaced with a chain convenience store.

While Kacie is trying to understand what has happened to her friend and to the old grocery store, she's using her observation skills to learn where Mercer Street is headed. Her three main concerns are the new convenience store, the skater boy who now lives in her BFF's old apartment, and her parents' laundromat which is struggling now to pay bills.

This book has a similar vibe as the Vanderbeekers books by Marina Yan Glaser. Except, instead of the place feeling like New York City, it has a decidedly west coast vibe. The author currently lives in Oakland which explains the familiar landscape of fictional Mercer Street.

Five stars