Everything is Teeth by Evie Wyld (2016, Pantheon; 128 pages) Evie Wyld has created a fantastic book, a book in which words and pictures are in perfect harmony. The illustrations are the work of Joe Sumner. Both Wyld and Sumner live in London, but Evie Wyld used to spend her summers in the heat of coastal Australia when she was a little girl. There she initiated her passion and captivation with sharks, by their innate ruthlessness and immeasurable power. Sharks have lived since then in her imagination, and that fact is the origin of this moving graphic memoir, a memoir, like many others, about family and love and loss, but also a memoir about “the irresistible forces that, like sharks, course through life unseen, ready to emerge at any moment.” The black and white illustrations and the story haunt the reader. Words one could use to describe the experience of reading Everything is Teeth are poetic, suspenseful, moving, honest, and eerily intimate. An extraordinary evocative beauty weaves the story with the help of pictures that mimic an old black-and-white film. A different reading for those looking for head-spinners. Find this title in our catalog: Everything is Teeth Recommended by: Maite
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