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High school can “make you” or it can be a battle of biblical proportions. Both are true in Ariel Schrag’s graphic novels Potential and Awkward and Definition, published by Simon & Schuster. The final book in the series, Likewise, chronicling the author’s senior year of high school, is scheduled to be released next spring.

What is the writer of the biggest lesbian pop song of the 90s doing performing in a Jewish cultural center?