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A box containing fourteen pamphlets, books, broadsheets, and foldouts that together form the life of an unnamed woman in a small Chicago apartment building.
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Rusty Brown
Set at a Nebraska private school across decades, Ware's mosaic novel gives each chapter to a different character in orbit around the lonely Rusty Brown.
Here
A graphic novel that stays in one corner of one room across hundreds of millions of years, layering moments from the Cretaceous to the far future.
Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth
Jimmy Corrigan, a lonely, timid office worker in his thirties, flies to Michigan to meet the father who left before he was born, and the book follows the family back to the Chicago World's Fair of 1893.
Clyde Fans
Twenty years in the making, a quiet graphic novel about two bachelor brothers inheriting an obsolete Toronto electric-fan company and the rooms it leaves them with.
Blackouts
A young queer man keeps vigil at the deathbed of an older one, and together they rewrite the redacted margins of a 1940s study of sexual deviance.
Apeirogon
A Palestinian father and an Israeli father, both of whom have lost daughters to the conflict, drive the territory of their shared loss across a thousand numbered fragments.
The Box Man
A nameless man cuts a window in a cardboard box, puts it over his head and begins to live inside it, writing the notebook the reader holds.
Stone Fruit
A young queer couple and the niece they love their way towards parenting slip, through a divorce, past the fragile arrangements that held them together.
The Rabbit Hutch
In the last summer of a decaying Indiana tenement called La Lapinière, a 19-year-old foster-care graduate and her three male housemates try to hold a life together.
Beverly
Linked comics stories about suburban Midwesterners, teenagers, parents and strangers, whose ordinary days turn slightly and disturbingly sideways.
Beautiful Losers
A Montreal folklorist mourning his wife writes about the seventeenth-century Mohawk saint Kateri Tekakwitha and about F., his friend, mentor and his wife's lover, in Cohen's wild, explicit second novel.
Malina
A woman living in Vienna with a silent man named Malina and loving a violent one named Ivan writes her own disappearance in a book that is part novel, part score.