Beskrivning
Beskrivning
A woman post-breakup becomes obsessed with the mirror Facebook of herselfseeing a life that could be hers. Another woman, besieged by bed bugs, studies her relationship and the affects herrecently- ended secret affair has on it. An anonymous music filesurfacesontheinternetanda cult springs up in its wake. A group of city animalsbrieflyopentheirmindstous;A womanfindsherclothesgrowingbaggy, her shoes looser, as she shrinks the world around her recedes.Jillian Tamaki brings her combined characteristic realism and humour to her first collection of short stories. Boundless explores the lives of women and how the expectations of others influence their real and virtual selves. Mixing objective reality, speculativefiction,out-and-outfantasy, and a matter-of-fact feminism, Tamaki shows herself to be a short story talent equaltoherpeersAdrian TomineandEleanor Davis. As Tamaki experiments with art-styles, we see hyper-realist detailing duelling with thick chunky blocks of ink, each delicately setting the mood for her charactersinner turmoil.
