Here is a good place

The puzzle isn’t yet complete, but with the pieces that we have we’ve got enough to follow Teresa’s last year at high school, to know who her best friend is, to expose jealousy, to notice body image issues, to witness family tensions and ties, to accompany new discoveries, and to sense, as the school year goes on, that perhaps there’s something in the air. There’s no doubt about it – something is changing.
Andreia Brites, Blimunda magazine

The result of a collaboration between Ana Pessoa (text) and Joana Estrela (illustrations), “Here Is a Good Place” is a quite remarkable graphic novel in the form of a diary, bringing together private thoughts confessed to paper, photos, cuttings, drawings which are somewhere between sketches and detailed illustrations, and writing which is also an illustrative act, in a book with impeccable graphic design (…).
Pedro Miguel Silva, Deus Me Livro blog

Ana Pessoa is one of the most original voices in the present panorama of literature aimed young adult readers. She’s not afraid to experiment – without resorting to thematic shocks – nor to explore the powerful truth which vibrates in the most everyday situations. (…) Here, we have an absolutely beautiful graphic novel which is complete in its simplicity and also quite contemporary.
PezLinterna, 02/2022

“Here Is a Good Place” tells one story on the outside. Its protagonist lives on the inside. Exiled within herself. And the story she tells is that of the world seen from an inward-facing and introverted space, an interior which needs to understand the world, her own world, the world which, sooner or later, she’ll have to grow into.
Legna, Rodríguez Iglesias, Fundación Cuatrogatos

This story by Pessoa & Estrela is comforting and, at the same time, unsettling. Almost without us noticing, it shows us how the immediate can be recognised and, above all, inhabited. There’s no other space or time, just a here with a series of different faces, and every little speck that we leave on the edge of a napkin, in the margins of books, on the back of a bus ticket, could become a paragraph, a narrative, and even a story if we pay close enough attention.
Ariadna Reyes, Revista LIJ IBERO blog, Mexico

This is a diary (…) which deals with friendship, identity, family, social relationships. All quite straightforward. However, what the reader learns about Cheerless Teresa, or Peerless Teresa, is remarkable for precisely the way that it is revealed. That’s what is magic and mysterious in this book.
Plano Nacional de Leitura 2027