{"id":50084,"date":"2022-12-03T12:12:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T17:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=50084"},"modified":"2022-12-03T13:00:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T18:00:31","slug":"when-everything-turned-blue-by-alessandro-baronciani-translated-by-carla-roncalli-di-montorio-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/when-everything-turned-blue-by-alessandro-baronciani-translated-by-carla-roncalli-di-montorio-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"When Everything Turned Blue by Alessandro Baronciani, translated by Carla Roncalli di Montorio [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-49905\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/10\/When-Everything-Turned-Blue-Alessandro-Baronciani-BookDragon-1-533x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"533\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/10\/When-Everything-Turned-Blue-Alessandro-Baronciani-BookDragon-1-533x800.jpg 533w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/10\/When-Everything-Turned-Blue-Alessandro-Baronciani-BookDragon-1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/>Marco, Chiara remembers of her close friend, \u201cwas not afraid &#8230; of being ill.\u201d The sudden news of his death leaves Chiara \u201ceven more frightened\u201d \u2013 because, ironically, he remained positive despite a fatal diagnosis while she remained debilitatingly \u201cscared.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The first time \u201cit\u201d happened, Chiara \u201c[didn\u2019t] know what came over [her].\u201d She tries medications and various tests: \u201cCould be the lungs. You struggle for breath. Terrible headaches.\u201d She seeks doctors, loses her lover, and ostracizes friends. \u201cAcknowledging panic attacks as an illness is very important,\u201d she finally begins to accept, \u201cyou realize you\u2019re not alone, at last.\u201c And so she heads toward possible recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Originally published in 2020 in Italy and newly published in the U.S. in a smooth translation by Carla Roncalli di Montorio, Baronciani\u2019s gentle narrative highlights the challenges of navigating mental health and offers universal resonance. In his expressive blue-and-white panels, Baronciani opens and ends in the unlimited sea as he literally transforms what was initially a \u201cdepth of darkness\u201d for Chiara into \u201cwater all around me [that] keeps me up &#8230; and I feel like I\u2019m flying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>YA\/S &#8211; special interest<\/b>:\u00a0Teens facing mental health challenges will find an empathetic, resonating read here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/When-Everything-Turned-Blue-\/pid=9769717\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;Graphic Novels,&#8221; <em>Booklist Online<\/em>, October 28, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult, Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2020 (Italy), 2022 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marco, Chiara remembers of her close friend, \u201cwas not afraid &#8230; of being ill.\u201d The sudden news of his death leaves Chiara \u201ceven more frightened\u201d \u2013 because, ironically, he remained positive despite a fatal diagnosis while she remained debilitatingly \u201cscared.\u201d The first time \u201cit\u201d happened,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,23,6,73,10143,60,66,1,31],"tags":[10648,6608,6668,7631,9408,11,13,7292,10647],"class_list":["post-50084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-european","category-fiction","category-graphic-novel-manga-manwha","category-italian","category-nonethnic-specific","category-translation","category-uncategorized","category-young-adult-readers","tag-alessandro-baronciani","tag-bookdragon","tag-booklist","tag-booklist-online","tag-carla-roncalli-di-montorio","tag-friendship","tag-love","tag-mental-illness","tag-when-everything-turned-blue"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>When Everything Turned Blue by Alessandro Baronciani, translated by Carla Roncalli di Montorio [in Booklist] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/when-everything-turned-blue-by-alessandro-baronciani-translated-by-carla-roncalli-di-montorio-in-booklist\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"When Everything Turned Blue by Alessandro Baronciani, translated by Carla Roncalli di Montorio [in Booklist] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Marco, Chiara remembers of her close friend, \u201cwas not afraid &#8230; 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