A Graphic Novel Review: Last Things

I wanted to make posts on graphic novels that i read, i buy graphic novels seasonally because i'm limiting myself on that amount of graphic novels i buy. I love graphic novels and if i had the money to afford tons and tons of it then i would get it, but by limiting myself to 4 graphic novels a year it cuts it down a bit. This graphic novel was for summer and i read it probably in 3 weeks because i took time with it. I brought it to school and sometimes when i had free time i would read a couple of pages.

This book i think costed around $16.. i'm going to leave the link here if anyone would like to purchase it as well... Last Things

So this graphic novel is actually based on a true story hence why it says a graphic memoir on the bottom left side. The story is about a family and the struggles within a family relationship when Marissa finds out that her husband Harvey is diagnosed with ALS.. and from there it becomes a spiral going downwards in all aspects of their life. This book itself doesn't have like breath taking art and if that's what you're looking for then this book isn't for you.. this book is so much more than the art that is shown... this is real life. And this event that happened could happen to anyone and to any family so seeing this really puts my own life into their perspective of how this hardship has an effect on everyone in the family, not just the person going through the actual disease. You gain so much perspective from this book and it's beautiful to learn so much about one family you feel as though you're connected in the end of it. And the ending of the book feels heavy for me.. not in the sense of it's subject matter but my feelings feel so heavy going through this whole process that i can't even imagine actually going through this like Marissa and her family did, and making this beautiful book in memory of all of it. This is one of my favorites and i hope to read more books that are in this realm. Thank you for reading this and take care.

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