Beverley (2016)
Finally, some good fucking fiction.
After going on a post-classical literature romp through some graphic novels, I was attempting to find a certain brand on GN that appealed to me. The easy on the surface but evocatively profound and after three I finally found it.
'Beverly' is a loose collection of stories that turn out to be fairly weakly linked. I've grown tired of this framing device in recent times, but I think it works slightly better for Graphic Novels as they read so quickly anyway, it's more akin to reading the comics page of a newspaper and learning that they exist in the same world.
But Drnaso is not turning out 'comics.' This is well and truly literature with accompaning pictures. It buries and excavated the mundane and opens the cadaver up just enough to let you do the dissection yourself. A pleasure to read, a delight to think over and I hope an equally mesmerizing read when I return to it. Bravo!
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