I hope it doesn’t trivialize [the previous] week’s … Book of the Week, Erica C. Barnett’s memoir of alcoholic blackouts and self-destruction, to say that the humiliating confessions in this book are nearly as relentless and excruciating. Because the humiliations, in the case of this graphic memoir, are tiny: failed bookstore events, comicon party snubs, parenting meltdowns, extracted from a life of evident professional and personal success. But there’s something about that ceaseless rhythm of minor abasement, presented, as always, in Tomine’s pristine, deadpan lines, that is both hilarious—I laughed out loud more than I have for any book since The Dog of the South—and, finally, moving, as Tomine himself questions, and then resumes, his maniacal devotion to his career and craft.
—Tom Nissley, Phinney Books, Seattle, WA
Step into other lives– and maybe even find some laughs– when you open a book from Phinney Books or another independent bookstore.