


The book primarily focuses on Harleen learning about the injustices in the world around her. It is then that Harleen must decide how to turn her anger into action, by either joining Ivy, who’s campaigning to make the neighborhood a better place to live or The Joker, who plans to take down Gotham one corporation at a time.

Harleen sees Mama as her only family so when the cabaret becomes the next victim in the wave of gentrification that’s taking over the neighborhood, Harleen gets mad. Instead of being turned into child services, Harleen lives in her grandmother’s rundown apartment above a karaoke cabaret owned by a drag queen named Mama. The coming-of-age story follows Harleen before she was known as Harley Quinn as the navigates life on as a teen on her own in the harsh world of Gotham City.Īfter leaving her mother to live with her grandmother, Harley finds out her dear grandma is dead. The book is written by Mariko Tamaki ( X-23, This One Summer, Supergirl: Being Super), with art by Steve Pugh, and letters by Carlos M. Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass is an original graphic novel from DC Ink, an imprint of DC Comics.
