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Record W4397006646 · doi:10.1353/bcc.2024.a927642

Age 16 by Rosena Fung (review)

2024· article· en· W4397006646 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueBulletin of the Center for Children's Books./Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicComics and Graphic Narratives
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGeographyHistory

Abstract

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Reviewed by: Age 16 by Rosena Fung Kate Quealy-Gainer Fung, Rosena Age 16; written and illus. by Rosena Fung. Annick, 2024 [316p] Trade ed. ISBN 9781773218335 $31.99 Paper ed. ISBN 9781773218342 $22.99 Reviewed from digital galleys R Gr. 8-12 Toronto in 2000 sets the opening scene for this deeply moving graphic novel, where sixteen-year-old Roz is doing her best to fit in by losing weight, counting calories, feigning excitement about the upcoming prom, and hiding her passion for sci-fi. Her mother doesn't make any of it easy, and she's particularly hard on Roz about her weight. The book then flashes back to Hong Kong in 1972, where Roz's mother Lydia contends with her own mother, whose hair-trigger temper and constant criticism create such a toxic home life that Lydia jumps at the chance to attend school in the U.S. Another shift in time brings readers to Guangdong in 1954 to meet Lydia's mother, Mei Laan, who flees from an abusive marriage to the streets, pregnant and with few resources. This portrait of intergenerational trauma strikes a delicate balance, providing a sympathetic explanation for Lydia's and Mei Laan's dysfunction without offering exoneration. The book takes care to acknowledge that healthy parenting was never modeled for any of these women, but that nonetheless their individual choices, along with their difficult circumstances, leave Roz with a heap of hurt she has no agency to heal or even fully understand. Time periods are marked by distinct palette shifts, and Fung (Living with Viola, BCCB 10/21) deftly conveys the three characters' chaotic thought patterns, relentless self-criticism, and deep pain with profound and engrossing art. Numbers on the scale follow Roz throughout her sections, Mei Laan's casually cruel comments move in ribbons around Lydia's, and a man's silhouette occasionally haunts Mei Laan's panels. A powerful author's note explains that while the book is fiction, much of it is based on Fung's own experience. Like Ying's Hungry Ghost (BCCB 3/23), this is a tender reminder that bodies are inherently both loveable and vulnerable, worthy and especially needing of compassionate care. [End Page 359] Copyright © 2024 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.575
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.003
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0020.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.209
Teacher spread0.198 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it