Mariko is a Canadian writer. Her works include:

>The graphic novel This One Summer (Governor-General’s Award for Children’s Illustrated Book, Printz Honor and Caldecott Honor Book), with Jillian Tamaki

>The graphic novel Skim (New York Times 10 Best Illustrated Books of the Year), with Jillian Tamaki

>Emiko Superstar (DC Comics), with Steve Rolston

>Her first YA novel, (You) Set Me on Fire, which was published by Penguin Canada and has been named one of RollingStone.com’s 40 Best YA Novels

She lives in Oakland, California.

Mariko is Social! Connect with her on: 

  @marikotamaki

And visit her blog at: marikotamaki.blogspot.ca/

Saving Montgomery Sole

Montgomery Sole is a square peg in a small town, a girl with two moms forced to go to a school full of homophobes and people who don’t even know what irony is.  Her saving grace – her two best friends, Thomas and Naoki.  Monty’s obsessed with paranormal mysteries like ESP, astrology, superpowers, and the healing powers of frozen yogurt, but when strange things actually start happening to Monty, she realizes that the greatest mystery of all is herself.  Thoughtful, funny, and honest, this book will make you want to laugh and cry over a big cup of frozen yogurt with extra toppings and your best friends at your side. (provided by Penguin Canada)

Mariko’s Other Books

This One Summer

(2015)

Skim

(2008)

Emiko Superstar

(2008)

These Are a Few of Her Favourite Things: 

Mariko’s Favorite Bands

1. Metric
2. Depeche Mode
3. Missy Elliott
4. RUSH
5. Arcade Fire
6. Björk
7. Foo Fighters
8. Le Tigre
9. Sleater-Kinney
10. Beatles

Mariko’s Movies You Should Watch

1. Thin Blue Line (directed by Errol Morris)
2. Carol (directed by Todd Haynes)
3. Torch Song Trilogy (directed by Paul Bogart)
4. Ocean’s Eleven (directed by Steven Soderbergh)
5. Diary of a Teenage Girl (directed by Marielle Heller)
6. Stories We Tell (directed by Sarah Polley)
7. Dogfight (directed by Nancy Savoca)
8. Paris is Burning (directed by Jennie Livingston)
9. The Virgin Suicides (directed by Sophie Coppola)
10. Hot Fuzz (directed by Edgar Wright)

Mariko’s TV You Should Get Into

1. Roseanne
2. My So-Called Life
3. Transparen't
4. RuPaul’s Drag Race
5. Friday Night Lights
6. GIRLS
7. Adventure Time
8. The Amazing World of Gumball
9. Freaks and Geeks
10. Bob’s Burgers

Mariko’s Ten Books (Prose)

1. Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro
2. Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood
3. Generation X by Douglas Coupland
4. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
5. The Antagonist by Lynn Coady
6. Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
7. Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith
8. It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
9. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
10. The Outsiders By S.E. Hinton

Mariko’s Ten Books (Comic)

1. Saga by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
2. Super Mutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki
3. Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton
4. Scott Pilgrim by Brian Lee O’Malley
5. Drama by Raina Telgemeier
6. Lumberjanes created by Grace Ellis, Shannon Watters and Noelle Stevenson
7. Ms. Marvel by G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona
8. Boxer and Saints by Gene Leung
9. Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
10. How to Be Happy by Eleanor Davis