I Hated You in High School

Auteur
Kathleen Gros is a cartoonist living in Vancouver, BC. Her most recent graphic novel Anne: An Adaptation of Anne of Green Gables (Sort Of) was released in 2022. Her other works include Jo: An Adaptation of Little Women (Sort Of) (HarperCollins 2020), Last Night at Wyrmwood High (Cloudscape Comics, 2015), and the webcomic Lunar Maladies (lunarmaladies.com, 2016-2020). She has contributed stories to several Cloudscape anthologies including Fantastic Frights, The Witching Hours, and Waterlogged: Tales of the Seventh Sea. In 2021 she was selected to participate in the Blind Date Project, facilitated by TCAF and the French Embassy in Canada.

She graduated with a BFA in Illustration from Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2015 & teaches comics in the Continuing Studies program at Langara.

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Tessa hasn't spoken to Olive in ten years and she's not about to start now...readers will delight in this enemies-to-lovers graphic novel with a queer twist: I Hated You in High School. Struggling 20-something Tessa has a dead-end job as a barista and the dream of a creative career that never quite seems to take off. When the coffee shop where she works goes out of business, she's able to visit her parents for the first time in years. Arriving at her family home, she discovers that her parents have rented out the basement apartment to her high school nemesis, Olive Virtue. Old wounds resurface during Tessa's stay, but an accident that traps them in the attic forces them to face their past and think about their future. I Hated You in High School is an enemies-to-lovers story inspired by classic romantic movies--with a queer twist. Author and illustrator Kathleen Gros has expanded her short story webcomic into a beautiful tale of love and learning.

Résumé
Tessa hasn't spoken to Olive in ten years and she's not about to start nowreaders will delight in this enemies-to-lovers graphic novel with a queer twist: I Hated You in High School.