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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Carries a strong pull into film through memory and South Asia.
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Tomorrow, When the War Began
Carries a strong pull into television through memory and migration.
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Nausea
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Critique of Pure Reason
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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First Love
Carries a strong pull into books through memory and migration.
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Secrets & Lies
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
1990s
The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a young adult coming-of-age epistolary novel by American writer Stephen Chbosky, which was first published on February 1, 1999, by Pocket Books. Set in the early 1990s, the novel follows Charlie, an introverted observing teenager, through his freshman year of high school in a Pitts...
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Nausea
2000s
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Nana
2000s
Two women named Nana share an apartment in Tokyo. Punk music, romance, and adult growing pains.
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Secrets & Lies
1990s
Secrets & Lies is a 1996 comedy-drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh. Led by an ensemble cast consisting of many Leigh regulars, it focuses on a dysfunctional family whose relations are thrown into further chaos after Cynthia is contacted by her adult daughter Hortense, who was put up for adoption at birth...
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Television 2020s
First Love
A Japanese series of memory, missed timing, adult return, and city tenderness carried through long-form television.
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Tomorrow, When the War Began
young adult war novel by John Marsden
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Music 1970s
Critique of Pure Reason
Television 2010s
Looking for Alaska
Looking for Alaska is a 2005 young adult novel by American author John Green. Based on his time at the private Indian Springs School, Green wrote the novel in order to create meaningful young adult fiction. While he drew from people and events in his life, the novel is fictional.
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Loveless
young adult novel by Alice Oseman
Television 2010s
Sex Education
Sex Education is a British teen sex comedy drama television series created by Laurie Nunn for Netflix. It follows the lives of the teenagers and adults in the fictional town of Moordale as they contend with various personal dilemmas, often related to sexual intimacy. It stars an ensemble cast that includes Asa Butte...