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| 3/1 | It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth | Tracing Pages |
There are no page numbers or even really clear chapter breaks in It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth so it’s a challenge to tell you where to break the reading. However, right about in the middle of the text there is a two page spread where on the left the cover of the book is reproduced and on the right there is another full page image that reproduces (with some differences) the dedication page from the front of the book.
This book is brand new — it just came out in November 2022. I’m going to be reading it right along with you, so I don’t know exactly how the narrative goes, though I have flipped through the book. I should warn you in advance that the graphic narrative includes pretty extensive and explicit discussions of self-harm and depression.
Zoe Thorogood is twenty-five years old. This is her second book, so I would imagine that the first set of comparisons we might make as we begin discussion on Monday will pick right up from the end of our discussion on Wednesday this week — what we look for from an author who is still young and close to the subject material versus from an older author writing from a greater distance, albeit with wider perspective. I think Thorogood is more “out there” than Walden is in Spinning but I’ll be curious to hear how you relate to her narrative. Also what you think of the tone and visual style of this new narrative.
