Are You Listening? by Tillie Walden

Graphic novel, read March 2020

Tillie Walden is truly a genius. Her books are so creative and so beautiful, and I want to say there’s a universality to them but then I realize I am just one person, I can’t really know if that’s true. So what I do know is that her books sit under my skin like I am exactly the person she was writing for, and it hurts to be seen like that, and it hurts to know you are not alone, and it hurts to be alive, and still there is a soft wash of colour that is love and kindness and solidarity and it is something to be grateful for every day. Are You Listening? is heavy, very very heavy, but it is also a stunning, surreal road through and out of being lost. I am not sure how to describe it more concretely without giving it away, so I will simply say: brace yourself, and drive. I love you.