{"product_id":"precious-rubbish","title":"Precious Rubbish","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003ePrecious Rubbish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eKayla E\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781683969280\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eFantagraphics\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2025\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\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. \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\n\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\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Fantagraphics","offers":[{"title":"Precious Rubbish | Kayla E | Hardcover | 9781683969280 | New | Comics \u0026 Graphic Novels 1672310","offer_id":50790586122498,"sku":"1672310","price":52.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/71GdzumqkDL.jpg?v=1792311423","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/precious-rubbish","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}