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September 30, 2019
Librairie Drawn & Quarterly Books of the Week - September 30, 2019
In the weekly Librairie Drawn & Quarterly Books of the Week, the Montreal bookstore recommends several new works of fiction, art books, periodicals, and comics.
Librairie Drawn & Quarterly is one of Montreal's premiere independent bookstores.
The River At Night by Kevin Huizenga
In this major new work for D&Q, long in the making, Kevin Huizenga brings back his everyman character, Glenn Ganges, for a surreal, philosophical comic that starts as a creative slacker’s caffeine-fuelled nighttime reverie and becomes an existential disquisition on life, the universe, and everything. This rich and complex graphic novel, with its clear-line style (obviously indebted to both Chris Ware and Hergé), will charm and beguile readers with its interwoven depictions of whimsical mental landscapes and everyday life in banal suburbia.
Rusty Brown by Chris Ware
Speaking of Chris Ware, the master is back! Sixteen years in the making, Rusty Brown is part one of an ongoing masterwork from the esteemed author of Jimmy Corrigan: the Smartest Boy On Earth and Building Stories. Like The River at Night, Ware’s Rusty Brown catalogues life’s biggest themes and smallest moments at the same time, with the meticulously detailed diagrammatic style that is his trademark. Rusty Brown is a “museum quality” graphic novel that aims to capture the whole of existence in the entangled stories of a child, a teen, a father and a late-middle-aged woman, all searching for love and acceptance in strange circumstances.
Make It Scream, Make It Burn by Leslie Jamison
After establishing herself as one of America’s premier memoirists and essayists with books like The Empathy Exams and The Recovering, Jamison (who now directs the graduate nonfiction program at Columbia University) has returned with fourteen new essays that plumb the depths of longing and the annals of obsession. Her subjects include 52 Blue, the “loneliest whale in the world”; the citizens of Second Life; the museum of broken relationships; and the eerie past-life memories of children. A virtuoso collection!
The Water Dancer: A Novel by Ta-Nehisi Coates
After a series of essential nonfiction works (Between the World and Me, We were Eight Years in Power) and a prolific career as a revered journalist and cultural critic, Ta-Nehisi Coates has written his debut novel. It’s the story of Hiram Walker, a boy born into slavery but possessed of a strange power; as he flees his past, he is drawn into an underground war between slavers and the enslaved, all the while trying to rescue the family he’s left behind. A propulsive, transcendent novel in incantatory prose, redolent of Toni Morrison.
How to Cure a Ghost by Fariha Róisín
Brooklyn-based Australian-Canadian writer (and former Montrealer) Fariha Róisín ia a queer muslim femme whose poetry navigates the joys and struggles of her intersectionality. In this debut collection (published simultaneously with Being in Your Body: a Journal for Self-love and Body Positivity), she writes fearlessly about the pain and strength required to attain self-acceptance. Tommy Pico calls her work “personal, national, global, contemporary, and historical.” A writer to watch!
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