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Summary
A lover's dream becomes a parent's nightmare in the astonishing new graphic novel from Nate Powell, National Book Award-winning artist of the March trilogy.
As the sun sets on the 1970s, the spirit of the Love Generation still lingers in one "intentional community" high in the Ozarks. But what's missing?
Under impossibly close scrutiny, two families wrestle with long-repressed secrets... while deep within those Arkansas hills, something monstrous stirs, ready to feast on village whispers.
With his first solo graphic novel in seven years, #1 New York Times bestseller Nate Powell presents a haunting tale of intimacy, guilt, and collective amnesia.
Author Notes
Nate Powell is a New York Times best-selling graphic novelist born in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1978. He began self-publishing at age 14, and graduated from School of Visual Arts in 2000. His work includes MARCH , You Don't Say , Any Empire , Swallow Me Whole , The Silence Of Our Friends , The Year Of The Beasts , and Rick Riordan's The Lost Hero . Powell is the first and only cartoonist ever to win the National Book Award. Powell has discussed his work at the United Nations, as well as on MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show and CNN.
Reviews (3)
Publisher's Weekly Review
This lyrical, lushly drawn graphic novel takes place in Haven Station, a fictional hippie commune in the Ozarks in the 1970s, with alternating story lines set at the opening and close of that decade. Communal living is falling out of fashion, but a tight group of true believers hang on, including Haluska, a restless woman with a young son named Jake. Haluska is having an affair with the husband of a longtime friend, who is also the father of her son's closest playmate. The lovers meet in an old mining tunnel in the woods, and when they are apart, the dark of its caverns haunts Haluska's dreams. When Jake and his best friend go exploring in the tunnel, the secret begins to undermine the community in unexpected and tragic ways. Initially grounded in the day-to-day drama of the commune, the tale slowly evolves into magical realism, and Haluska turns heroic as she struggles to set things right. The offbeat village, its inhabitants, and the surrounding forest and countryside are rendered in fluid, magical brushwork tinted in the colors of a sunrise and filled with mysterious shadows and crannies. Powell illustrated the bestselling nonfiction March trilogy authored by Congressman John Lewis, and this enchanting solo effort reveals even greater depths to Powell's gift for visual storytelling and creating appealing, human characters. (July) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Booklist Review
Fresh off illustrating the awards juggernaut of the youth nonfiction trilogy, March, Powell makes a hairpin turn into surreal yet realistically grounded adult horror. Across two time frames a green-tinted 1971 and a pink-tinted 1979 Powell tracks Haluska and eventually her young son, Jacob. Their Ozarks town is tiny, with exhibit A being Haluska's long-time affair with her best friend's husband, Adrian. They conduct their trysts in an old diamond mine they stumbled across years ago, a spot they keep secret until Adrian's son, Shane, disappears while playing with Jacob, and Jacob leads the adults right to the mine. Except now the mine has disappeared, too. As the shamed Haluska tries to rally the town to search for Shane, she finds everyone is starting to forget he ever existed. Powell's nonjudgmental depiction of the central relationship triangle is poignantly observant even when it spirals into dreamlike rumination. The supernatural element is downplayed to creepy effect, giving Powell room to artistically stretch, from narrow sliced-and-diced panels to wide spreads as black as oil. Unique, puzzling, and unexpectedly sad.--Daniel Kraus Copyright 2018 Booklist
Library Journal Review
Secrets are harbored by all societies-even small, hippie-style communes of the 1970s in the Ozarks. When two families struggle with a hidden infidelity, one couple literally takes their clandestine affair underground. But burying desires can be dangerous, especially if they're covertly witnessed by something...nonhuman. This dark, convoluted tale demonstrates in a microcosm what most cultures go through historically over generations. Here secrets revealed become filtered truth and interpreted reality, ultimately evolving into a kind of collective amnesia. National Book Award winner Powell (cocreator, March trilogy) turns out a foggy, shadow-filled fable that speaks beyond a simple, surface narrative of marital betrayal to offer an open-ended story skillfully illustrated with clever graphic interpretation of dialog and action sequences. VERDICT Aficionados of dark fantasy and painterly graphic works will relish this fine concoction of horror and literary nuance. [Previewed in Jody Osicki's "Graphically Speaking," LJ 6/15/18.]-Russell Miller, formerly with Prescott P.L., AZ © Copyright 2018. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
