I am Not Starfire is a story about teenagers and/as aliens about knowing where you come from and where you are going and about mothers.Īlong with the trailer we also got an excerpt from the graphic novel. When someone from Starfire’s past arrives, Mandy must make a choice: give up before the battle has even begun, or step into the unknown and risk everything to save her mom. How do you become the person you’re supposed to be when you don’t know what that is? How do you become the person you’re supposed to be when the only thing you’re sure of is what you’re not? Mandy likes Claire (even if she denies it, heartily and intensely). But then everything changes when she gets partnered with Claire for a school project. Mandy’s big plan is that she’s going to move to France and…do whatever people do in France. Which, yeah, her mom doesn’t know.Įveryone thinks Mandy needs to go to college and become whoever you become at college, but Mandy has other plans. To Starfire, who is from another planet, Mandy seems like an alien, like some distant angry light-years away moon.Īnd it’s possible Mandy is even more distant lately, ever since she walked out on her S.A.T.s.

Mandy has no powers, is a kid who dyes her hair black, and hates everyone but her best friend Lincoln.

Starfire is gorgeous, tall, sparkly, and a hero. Seventeen-year-old Mandy, daughter of Starfire, is NOT like her mother.

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