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Join us at Librairie Drawn & Quarterly (176 Rue Bernard Ouest) for our Graphic Novel Book Club! On Tuesday September 30th at 7 pm we will be discussing MISERY OF LOVE by YVAN ALAGB\u00c9, translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith, and published by New York Review of Comics. This meeting will be hosted by D+Q’s Sales & Marketing Manager, Francine Yulo. The Graphic Novel Book Club is free to attend and no reservation is required.<\/div>\n
Buy the book:\u00a0https:\/\/mtlshop.drawnandquarterly.com\/misery<\/a><\/div>\n
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MISERY OF LOVE: Colonial history haunts this stunning, spectral-looking graphic novel, a spiritual sequel to the author\u2019s Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures.<\/div>\n
In Misery of Love, a spiritual sequel to the acclaimed Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures, Yvan Alagb\u00e9 continues his unflinching interrogation of race and family in modern France.<\/div>\n
The book focuses on the dream-like memories of a woman named Clare, who is reluctantly spending time with her relatives for a funeral. Alagb\u00e9 seamlessly glides between narratives of the family\u2019s past and present, all haunted by the legacy of France\u2019s colonial subjugation of Africa.<\/div>\n
Alagb\u00e9 works in stormy grayscale washes, using comics, as he puts it, as \u201ca sacred dimension which celebrates, questions and perpetuates life…. I believe that life is not damnation but grace.\u201d<\/div>\n
Told through time shifts that echo Richard McGuire\u2019s Here, Misery of Love is another ambitious, devastating masterpiece from one of France\u2019s best contemporary graphic novelists.<\/div>\n
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YVAN ALAGB\u00c9 was born in Paris and spent three years of his youth in West Africa. He is a cofounder of the publishing house Amok, which later merged with the Belgian publishing group Fr\u00e9on to become Fr\u00e9mok, now a major European graphic novels publisher. He is the author of Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures. He teaches at Haute \u00e9cole des arts du Rhin in Strasbourg.<\/div>\n
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– There is one non-gendered bathroom.
– It is not a sober space, our events sometimes offer alcohol.
– Please email events@drawnandquarterly.com if you have any accessibility needs we can accommodate.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Join us at Librairie Drawn & Quarterly (176 Rue Bernard Ouest) for our Graphic Novel Book Club! On Tuesday September 30th at 7 pm we will be discussing MISERY OF LOVE by YVAN ALAGB\u00c9, translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith, and published by New York Review of Comics. This meeting will be hosted by D+Q’s Sales &…<\/p>\n

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