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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