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Parrish's first graphic novel for Fantagraphics is a visual tour de force, always in the service of the author's ever-prevalent themes: navigating queer desire, masculinity, fear, and the ever-in-flux state of friendships.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49734886785297,"sku":"NGR9781683960676","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49949618143505,"sku":"GOR012597488","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50764871205137,"sku":"CIN168396067XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ LIKE_NEW \/ SBYB","offer_id":50843719565585,"sku":"CIN168396067XLN","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/168396067X.jpg?v=1751058364"},{"product_id":"men-i-trust-book-tommi-parrish-9781913348878","title":"Men I Trust","description":"An original graphic novel about the messiness of modern relationships by one of the most exciting voices in contemporary literature.   Eliza is a thirtysomething struggling single mother and poet; Sasha, a twentysomething living with her parents, dabbling in sex work, and yearning for direction in life. The two strike up an unlikely friendship that, as it veers towards something more, becomes a deeply resonant exploration of how far people are willing to go to find intimacy in a society that is increasingly closed off.   Parrish’s fully realised characters and gorgeously painted pages make Men I Trust one of the most moving and insightful works of fiction in any medium this year.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49745022124305,"sku":"NGR9781913348878","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50747799077137,"sku":"GOR012820062","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1913348873.jpg?v=1751412836"},{"product_id":"men-i-trust-book-tommi-parrish-9781683966500","title":"Men I Trust","description":"\u003cb\u003eTommi Parrish's sophomore graphic novel establishes them as one of the most exciting voices in contemporary literature.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2023 LA Times Book Prize NOMINEE, Graphic Novel\/Comics\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003eEliza is a thirtysomething struggling single mother and poet. Sasha, a twentysomething yearning for direction in life, just moved back in with her parents and dabbles as a sex worker. The two strike up an unlikely friendship that, as it veers toward something more, becomes a deeply resonant exploration of how far people are wil­ling to go to find intimacy in a society that is increasingly not conducive to it.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn Sasha and Eliza, Parrish has created two of the most fully realized characters in recent contemporary fiction. Parrish's gorgeously painted pages showcase a graceful understanding of body language and ear for dialogue, brilliantly using the medium of comics to depict the dissonance between the characters' interior and exterior experiences. \u003ci\u003eMen I Trust\u003c\/i\u003e is about not-always-healthy people attempting to make healthy connections in a disconnected world, and is one of the most moving and insightful works of literary fiction in any medium this year.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49746265735441,"sku":"NGR9781683966500","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50764871500049,"sku":"CIN1683966503VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50959739978001,"sku":"CIN1683966503G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51046133563665,"sku":"NIN9781683966500","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1683966503.jpg?v=1750993683"},{"product_id":"past-is-a-grotesque-animal-book-tommi-parrish-9798875001321","title":"The Past is a Grotesque Animal","description":"Tommi Parrish is an Australian trans cartoonist and one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary comics and graphic novels. Balancing emotional honesty with a keen awareness of the human condition, Parrish navigates fear, loneliness, identity, body politics, queer desire, masculinity, fear, and the ever-fluid nature of all human relationships. The Past Is A Grotesque Animal collects over two dozen short stories of varying lengths, interspersed with ephemera from Parrish's own life: diary entries, photographs, illustrations, paintings, and more. Parrish's autobiographical elements inform their voice as a writer, and the ways their characters constantly find one another adrift in their own seas of experience, current situations, trauma, and desire - and how those things coexist, and how they are complicated by outside forces and internal ones that affect our hardwired need for meaningful connection. The book also showcases Parrish's singular and assured visual style, blending clear lines, expressionistic character designs and gorgeously complex, hand-painted colour. 'I think of my work as trying to work out how to cultivate a type of intimacy that doesn't have a roadmap, and everyone is just feeling around in the dark trying to work out how to do it,' Parrish says. 'I think that's what I am always trying to get at - how to cultivate that closeness when you're also really fucking traumatised and lonely. I know a lot of people where that's their story. 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