Panther City: Tales of a Gen X Grade 3 Project Run Amok

Long before social media, cell phones, the Internet, expansive gender definitions, or even cable TV, a 3rd grade class collaborated on a paper city. Conceived as a way to make learning fun, the project quickly devolved into an exercise in accusations, subterfuge, and childish vandalism.

Narrated by 8-year-old Annie, the best girl artist in class, Panther City is both a comedy of manners for adults and an unvarnished recollection of a bygone moment in the pre-Bicentennial American Midwest, as observed by https: //www.ayunhalliday.com/>Ayun Halliday, Chief Primatologist of The East Village Inky zine and the author of No Touch Monkey! And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late.

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Ayun Halliday is the author of nine other books and Chief Primatologist of the long running, award-winning, autobiographical zine, The East Village Inky. As co-founder of Theater of the Apes, Ayun writes, acts, makes costumes out of thrift store finds, and creates improvised bluegrass musicals and offbeat variety shows. She is currently adapting her solo retelling of Romeo and Juliet, NURSE!, as a graphic novel. Born in Indianapolis, she has lived half her life in New York City.

Leni Yow-Fairs was born in a bathtub i n Liverpool, U.K i n 2016. She i s very knowledgeable about Victorian fashion that can kill, and she likesdressing up as a Victorian in a pink corset her penpal, Ayun, gave her for her 7 1⁄2th birthday. She loves to play with dolls. She is quite a picky eater, but loves spinach feta pie. She lives in Toronto, Canada.