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Everything is Flammable

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“Bell’s pen becomes one of those laser, first illuminating the surface distractions of the world, then scorching them away to show a deeper reality that may be almost too painful and too beautiful to bear.”— Alison Bechdel, Fun Home, Are You My Mother

In Gabrielle Bell’s much anticipated graphic memoir, she returns from New York to her childhood town in rural Northern California after her mother’s home is destroyed by a fire. Acknowledging her issues with anxiety, financial hardships, memories of a semi-feral childhood, and a tenuous relationship together with her mother, Bell helps her mother put together a new home on top of the ashes. A powerful, now and again uncomfortable, examination of a mother-daughter relationship and one’s connection to position and sense of self. Spanning a single year, Everything is Flammable unfolds with humor and brutal honesty. Bell’s sharp, digressive style is inimitable.

Gabrielle Bell’s work has been selected for Best American Comics and the Yale Anthology of Graphic Fiction, and has been featured in McSweeney’s, the Believer, Bookforum, and Vice among a lot of other publications. Her story, “Cecil and Jordan In New York,” was once adapted into film by Michel Gondry. Bell’s previous graphic novel, The Voyeurs, was once named one of the vital easiest books of the year by Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, and the Atlantic. She currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.


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