Bottomless Belly Button by Dash Shaw

$29.50

Bottomless Belly Button by Dash Shaw If R.D. Laing wrote an episode of The Simpsons, it might read something like this hefty comedy-drama. After 40-some years of marriage, Maggie and David Loony shock their children with their announcement of a planned divorce. The announcement sparks a week-long family reunion at Maggie and David's creepy (and possibly haunted) beach house. The eldest child, Dennis, struggles with his parents' decision while facing marital difficulties of his own, and embarks on a quest to discover the truth behind the estrangement, searching through clues, trap doors, and secret tunnels to find an answer. Claire, the middle child, is a single mother whose 16-year-old daughter is apathetic to the divorce but confounded by Claire and troubled by her own "mannish" appearance. The youngest child, Peter, is a hack filmmaker suffering from paralyzing insecurities who establishes an unorthodox romance. Visually, Shaw employs a leisurely storytelling pace that allows room for exploring the interconnecting relationships among the characters and plays to his strength as a cartoonist -- small gestural details and nuanced expressions that bring the characters to vivid and intimate life.

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This product was added to our catalog on Monday 16 February, 2009.