Sabrina
Book Condition: New
Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly, May 2018.
ISBN: 177046316X
Recommended by: Isaac
"Clammy and claustrophobic, you'll despair at Drnaso's unflinching, unblinking stare at unspooling lives. The discrepancy between the characters' simplified cartoonish appearance and their throes of anguish heightens this discomfort. These characters struggle to relate, to articulate, to make sense. How do you deal with loss, with lack of closure? Do you retreat inwards? Do you fall in with communities who soothe you with narratives that hide dangerous aims? Drnaso exposes the emptiness behind our outlets for avoiding honest interaction and/or self-inquiry: institutions, the internet, going to work, not going to work - it's all implicated, rendered lackluster and flat, leading you to question your own set of circumstances. Muffled and numb (from an absence of sound effects, thought bubbles, plot resolution, etc.), you'll reel through this graphic novel until all that's left is the choice to be well again"
THE FIRST EVER GRAPHIC NOVEL NOMINATED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE! A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK! ON 20 BEST OF 2018 LISTS INCLUDING THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, NEWSWEEK, AND THE GUARDIAN!
"Sabrina is the intimate story of one man's suffering, but it also captures the political nihilism of the social-media era--a time when a President can dismiss the murder of a journalist by saying of the perpetrator, "Maybe he did. Maybe he didn't.""
--DT Max, The New Yorker
Conspiracy theories, breakdown, murder: Everything's gonna be all right--until it isn't
When Sabrina disappears, an airman in the U.S. Air Force is drawn into a web of suppositions, wild theories, and outright lies. He reports to work every night in a bare, sterile fortress that serves as no protection from a situation that threatens the sanity of Teddy, his childhood friend and the boyfriend of the missing woman. Sabrina's grieving sister, Sandra, struggles to fill her days as she waits in purgatory. After a videotape surfaces, we see devastation through a cinematic lens, as true tragedy is distorted when fringe thinkers and conspiracy theorists begin to interpret events to fit their own narratives.
The follow-up to Nick Drnaso's Beverly, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Sabrina depicts a modern world devoid of personal interaction and responsibility, where relationships are stripped of intimacy through glowing computer screens. Presenting an indictment of our modern state, Drnaso contemplates the dangers of a fake-news climate. Timely and articulate, Sabrina leaves you gutted, searching for meaning in the aftermath of disaster.
Binding: HardcoverItem #91017
Price: $27.95