fair play, it's a better book than it initially pretends to be, and I'm glad I stuck with it long enough to find that out. equally I do think somebody should someday write a literary graphic novel that's not about depression

Graphic novel in which the protagonists are unhappily married and neglectful of their kids—the mother keeps trying to send the kids to buy her wine and cigarettes, while the father can’t remember his son’s name. But there’s more to the story—the mother seems uncertain that this is really happening, for one thing, and the father says he’s a barber and not a website manager, as everyone around him thinks he is. If you can stand the suffering of the children, which is not downplayed, it’s an intriguing look at depression (maybe metaphorically) and also a story about forging human connections where none existed before, in the face of terrible loss. ( )