SANPAKU ORIGINAL GN HC

Marcine is fascinated with the Japanese theory of Sanpaku. It states that seeing the white around the iris of one�fs eyes is a bad omen. But it�fs everywhere Marcine looks.her grandmother has it, some of her classmates at Catholic school have it, JFK had it... even Marcine might suffer from this odd condition. It�'s believed that eating a strict macrobiotic diet and meditating is supposed to help, but no matter how much Marcine wants it to, these practices can�'t save her grandmother, or bring back pop star Selena, or make her life at school any easier...! From critically acclaimed cartoonist Kate Gavino (Last Night�'s Reading), Sanpaku gives voice to the insecurities that abound in teens of all cultures.