Anya's Ghost (2011) is an award-winning graphic novel by Vera Brosgol about a lonely, insecure Russian immigrant teenager named Anya who befriends the ghost of a girl named Emily, whom she meets after falling into a dry well. The ghost initially helps Anya fit in at school and secure her crush, but the story turns sinister when Emily becomes dangerously clingy and manipulative, forcing Anya to confront her own insecurities and selfish choices.