{"product_id":"precious-rubbish-9781683969280","title":"Precious Rubbish","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Kayla E.\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Fantagraphics Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Fantagraphics Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Nonfiction - Biography \u0026amp; Memoir\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"If an exorcism can ever be slow and quiet, then every panel I've finished has felt something like an exorcism. The gutters give me space to make sense of things: to connect dots and close gaps. To remember.\" Kayla E.'s \u003cem\u003ePrecious Rubbish\u003c\/em\u003e is an experimental graphic memoir drawn in a style that references the aesthetics of mid-century children's comics and tells the story of a childhood shaped by maternal emotional dysregulation, rural poverty, and incest. The author's childhood is portrayed as a collection of short-form comics and gag panels punctuated by interactive elements like paper dolls, satirical advertisements, games, and puzzles. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile the work is concerned with violence and a particularly Texan brand of Pentecostal fanaticism, it is presented in a playful visual language with a deadpan humor that elevates the material beyond mere graphic memoir. Precious Rubbish is a landmark work of comics storytelling and graphic medicine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe debut graphic novel from artist Kayla E., \u003cem\u003ePrecious Rubbish\u003c\/em\u003e asks the reader to do the extratextual work of filling out narrative gaps, which mirrors the challenge of trauma recollection. The reader is invited to co-labor in the meaning-making process, an exercise that facilitates an intimacy (between the author, the subject, and the reader) that is at once horrifying and hilarious.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fantagraphics Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45412760223895,"sku":"9781683969280","price":2229.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781683969280.webp?v=1768584004","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/precious-rubbish-9781683969280","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}