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''Anya's Ghost'' is an award-winning supernatural graphic novel by Vera Brosgol. The book was first published on June 7, 2011 through First Second Books and in 2012, won an Eisner Award for "Best Publication for Young Adults" and a Harvey Award for "Best Original Graphic Publication for Younger Readers". Brosgol worked on ''Anya's Ghost'' over a period of four years, beginning in 2007 and finishing the text in 2009 while completing the cover in 2010.〔 〕 ==Synopsis== Anya Borzakovskaya is an immigrant from Russia who lives in the United States, alongside her mother and brother, Sasha. Anya is unpopular at her New England private school, aside from her best friend Siobhan and fellow Russian immigrant Dima, who Anya avoids due to being too “fresh off the boat,” and wishes to join the popular kids, including Sean, the object of her affections, and Elizabeth, Sean’s girlfriend. Walking through the park one day, after deciding to skip school, Anya falls down a large hole in the forest, which she finds contains a skeleton. The skeleton’s ghost, a shy, homely girl soon appears and explains that she had fallen down the hole and died of thirst after breaking her neck ninety years ago. She expresses a wish to befriend and help Anya, but is unable to so as she can't move very far from her bones. The next day, Anya is rescued by a passerby, but the skeleton remains undiscovered. At school several days later, the ghost appears to her, as Anya had apparently put a small finger bone in her bag by accident while leaving the hole. Anya initially wants to put the bone back in the hole, but relents after the ghost helps Anya cheat on a biology test and spy on Sean. Later, the ghost reveals herself to be Emily Reilly, whose fiancée had died during World War I. Shortly thereafter, Emily’s parents were murdered, and Emily fell down an old well while escaping the killer. Anya promises to find Emily’s killer, while Emily agrees to help Anya fit in at school and win over Sean. The two subsequently begin a budding friendship. However, Anya’s attempts to become popular ostracizes her from Siobhan, who dislikes Sean, and Emily becomes disinterested in discovering the murderer’s identity. Later, at Emily's insistence, Anya goes to a party with Sean and Elizabeth, and discovers that Sean habitually cheats on Elizabeth, who is only with him for the boost in social status. Slightly sickened, Anya leaves the party, which leaves Emily, who believed the two were destined for each other, angry and confused. After this incident, Anya notices Emily is becoming more controlling of her than before, even straightening her hair and smoking ghost cigarettes, like Anya used to. Anya decides to finally search for the killer at the library (without Emily around), and finds a newspaper article about Emily’s disappearance with Dima’s help. It is then revealed that Emily had no fiancée, and had in fact murdered a young couple in their home after the man rejected her, and then died running from the authorities. When Anya returns home, she discovers the finger bone to be missing. After confronting Emily with the truth, Anya finds that Emily is capable of moving solid objects, implying she had put the bone in the bag in the first place. Emily begins threatening Anya’s family in order to make Anya stop resisting her manipulations, even causing Anya’s mother to fall down a flight of stairs. After Emily appears before Sasha, he reveals to Anya he had found the bone earlier and put it with his “dinosaur bone” collection. Anya retrieves the bone and runs to the pit, pursued by Emily. Once at the pit, Anya confronts Emily, accusing her about how she's really just using Anya to try to relive her life. Emily then states that Anya (who has lied about her last name to Sean and not spoken to Siobhan for some time) is actually no better, saying that the two of them are more alike then she wants to admit. After Emily attempts to push her into the hole with the last of her strength, Anya drops the bone into the hole. Emily then manages to possess her own skeleton, and climbs out of the pit to give further chase. Seeing what this is doing to Emily's skeleton, Anya stops and finally convinces Emily of the futility of her situation, causing the tearful ghost to dissipate into the air with a sigh, implying that Emily has been freed to the afterlife, and the skeleton falls into the pit again. Much later, Anya convinces her school to fill up the hole and rekindles her friendship with Siobhan. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anya's Ghost」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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