Artichoke Tales
Jan. 10th, 2021 04:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearArtichoke Tales by Megan Kelso is a graphic novel, charting the stories of three generations of artichoke people, finding themselves and each other against a backdrop of civil war. The individual tales are intensely personal and yet also universal, with the history of conflict explored from two different sides, resulting in arguments over what 'really' happened.
With the stories jumping around in time and the characters all looking quite similar, it's sometimes difficult to identify when and where individual scenes take place and track the characters through their arcs.
But the book has a lot to say about generational expectations, dysfunctional families, and shared history. Moments of depth and profundity, moments of sweetness and sadness. It doesn't necessarily hold together as a cohesive whole very well, but I actually think that's partially the point.
With the stories jumping around in time and the characters all looking quite similar, it's sometimes difficult to identify when and where individual scenes take place and track the characters through their arcs.
But the book has a lot to say about generational expectations, dysfunctional families, and shared history. Moments of depth and profundity, moments of sweetness and sadness. It doesn't necessarily hold together as a cohesive whole very well, but I actually think that's partially the point.
