Rachel Ang

A collection of short stories linked together by (I think?) the same main character. I didn't like the art style very much; it seemed a bit amateurish and so many of the character faces looked so similar that I had difficulty following who was who. Great title, and at some times some beautiful evocations of messy, unpleasant feelings, but I got the sense that Rachel Ang was so enamoured with being "conceptual" that she forgot to have a concept.

A collection of five moody stories by a Melbourne artist, rendered in shadowy charcoal colours. There are dislocation, double images, underwater swirls, empty and overlapping text balloons to show the uncertainty and discombobulation of the characters, mainly analogues of the author. Uncertain relationships, abuse, diffidence flow through the stories.