Alicia Keys Hopes Her Graphic Novel ‘Girl On Fire’ Helps Kids ‘Fall In Love With Words’

etcanada.com:

Alicia Keys is turning her creativity to the world of comics. The musician spoke about her new graphic novel “Girl on Fire” on the March 8 episode of “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon”.

The book follows Lola, a young girl from New York City who discovers she has superpowers. READ MORE: Alicia Keys Says Her Kids Become ‘Frustrated’ When She Works “She is from Brooklyn, she’s raised by a single father who’s also raising her brother,” Keys explains. “Her mother is actually not around — as you read the story you’ll find out why.

And her brother was racially profiled and attacked by a police officer and she got so upset, she wanted to protect him and she just didn’t know what to do.” Young Lola finds herself at a loss for what to do with her newfound abilities, which the artist calls a metaphor for the power within everyone. “She’s trying to figure out what do I do with this energy?” she continues. “How do I harness it?

How do I use it? Am I crazy? And the whole book is really a metaphor to the superpowers we all have and trying to find our way to harness it.” READ MORE: Alicia Keys Remembers ‘Absolutely Nothing’ From Lil Mama Crashing 2009 MTV VMA Performance A wordsmith herself, Keys hopes her book will help share her love of the written word with the next generation. “I think it’s a beautiful way to introduce kids to just continue to fall in love with words and reading, and I’ve been so grateful to have fallen in love with words,” she added.