The Hard Tomorrow
A graphic novel that quietly follows a couple trying to build a future, a home, and a family in a tense near future.
Work Information
A graphic novel that quietly follows a couple trying to build a future, a home, and a family in a tense near future.
A graphic novel that quietly follows a couple trying to build a future, a home, and a family in a tense near future.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Drawn & Quarterly
- Published
- 2019-10-08
- Pages
- 152 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 15.93 x 1.96 x 22.45 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781770463738
- ISBN-10
- 1770463739
- Price
- 4948 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Comics & Graphic Novels/Graphic Novels
Winner of the LA Times Book Prize for Best Graphic Novel! 30 best of the year and best of the decade nods from The Guardian , Wired , NPR , and more! Hannah is a thirty-something wife, home-health worker, and antiwar activist. Her husband, Johnny, is a stay-at-home pothead working--or "working"--on building them a house before the winter chill sets in. They're currently living and screwing in the back of a truck, hoping for a pregnancy, which seems like it will never come. Legs in the air, for a better chance at conception, Hannah scans fertility Reddits while Johnny dreams about propagating plants--kale, tomatoes--to ensure they have sufficient sustenance should the end times come, which, given their fragile democracy strained under the weight of a carceral state and the risk of horrible war, doesn't seem so far off. Helping Hannah in her fight for the future is her best friend Gabby, a queer naturalist she idolizes and who adores her. Helping Johnny build the house is Tyler, an off-the-grid conspiracy theorist driven sick by his own cloudy notions of reality. Told with tenderness and care in an undefined near future, Eleanor Davis's The Hard Tomorrow blazes unrestrained, as moments of human connection are doused in fear and threats. Her astute projections probe at current anxieties in a cautionary tale that begs the question: What will happen after tomorrow?
Eleanor Davis is a cartoonist and illustrator. Her books include How to Be Happy , You and a Bike and a Road , Why Art? , and The Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crook . She lives in Athens, Georgia.
Reviews
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Tal cual lo esperas.
Una historia buena y unas ilustraciones perfectas, lo recomiendo.
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Very nice book
Very good
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Profoundly relevant
This is the first graphic-novel-length story for adults by Eleanor Davis, who is generally considered one of the best sequential artists out there. It's clear why - she uses all the tools available to a graphic novelist to tell a richer story than could be told by words or images alone. The book is set in the very near future. Davis has created a world filled with characters who each have their own stories. But it's the protagonist Hannah who presents the existential problem that I bet most of us are aware of (confronting or avoiding it) when we consider the future --- and she provides an answer of sorts-one that is powerful, emotional, and positive.
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Excelente novela gráfica, no de superhéroes
Excelente historia, calidad humana.
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A must read
I got this book for my birthday in April of the Year of Corona, so we were still in lockdown which made reading this book all the more meaningful.