Chris W. Kim Adherent Paperback Book

One of NYPLs Best New Comics of 2023 for Adults. A poignant fable about a young woman who is captivated by a set of recently discovered notebooks and leaves her isolated community to search for their authora journey that ultimately makes her question what she wants and what shes willing to leave behind. The residents of an isolated village in a dreamlike world scavenge for supplies in the surrounding forest, collecting scattered items left over from a time long past. No one strays far from this community, fearing what may lie beyond it. When they find a stack of notebooks by an unknown author, a young villager becomes obsessed with their contents. She sets out on a quest to find the writer. As she ventures into the unknown, she discovers a world both barren and increasingly complex. The closer she gets to her goal, the more she realizes that the encounter shes been seeking probably wont be what she wanted. In Adherent, Chris W. Kim (Herman by Trade, Strays) brings us a fabular tale that examines the ways we connectand the ideas and places we valuein our own increasingly disconnected world. | Chris W. Kim Adherent Paperback Book