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Ruins
Ruins | Peter Kuper
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Samantha and George are a couple heading towards a sabbatical year in the quaint Mexican town of Oaxaca. For Samantha, it is the opportunity to revisit her past. For George, it is an unsettling step into the unknown. For both of them, it will be a collision course with political and personal events that will alter their paths and the town of Oaxaca forever. In tandem, the remarkable and arduous journey that a Monarch butterfly endures on its annual migration from Canada to Mexico is woven into Ruins. This creates a parallel picture of the challenges of survival in our ever-changing world. Ruins explores the shadows and light of Mexico through its past and present as encountered by an array of characters. The real and surreal intermingle to paint an unforgettable portrait of life south of the Rio Grande.
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well.read.panda
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This was so, so good. #graphicnovels

ReadingOver50 Pretty 7y
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Jokila
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Ruins follows a New York couple on a sabbatical to Oaxaca, Mexico. Samantha last visited in her 20s and the contrast between what she had hoped her life had become and what her life is now forces her to confront her tragic past and future. George is reluctant to have children or explore, and sees only more reasons to shut out the world in the violence that follows a teachers strike. Both are presented with opportunities to change, irreversibly. 🦋

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John.in.Fargo
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The comic at its best. This story couldn‘t have been told this well in any other format. It is a fine physical object as well, with great paper, cover, binding, and print on the page. The color and page layouts are great. The characterization and leitmotifs make all of the actors pop. A great work. My highest recommendation.

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa
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A very beautiful and complex comic set. On the surface it follows the Monarch Butterfly on its migration to Mexico, while also following an American couple's sabbatical trip to Mexico to write a book. But both husband and wife have some secrets they aren't sharing with each other, & both might need to follow the Monarch's lead & cocoon themselves in Mexico before they can fly, whether they emerge and fly the same direction is another question.

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa
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Libby1 You could use this for the #ReadJanuary #Royals prompt! 8y
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Libby1 Yes I could! 👍 8y
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Riveted_Reader_Melissa
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Very true.... plus look, the bookstore is on their map (our kind of travel map!)

LeahBergen 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 8y
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Riveted_Reader_Melissa
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Hahaha! Ok, that's a funny!

Suzze Ha! 😁😁 8y
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Peter Kuper is definately one of the most chameleonic comic artists I know. In contrast to his adaptations of some of Kafka's stories (to which the black and white perfectly fits), "Ruins" is colorful and shows a great variation in style. Definately a pick!

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RacheLibrarian
Ruins | Peter Kuper
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A couple travels to Oaxaca for her sabbatical after he is laid off. She is revisiting her past, and he is trying to regain his footing. I probably set my expectations too high based on its winning the Eisner award for best graphic novel. I loved the interludes- both the butterfly interludes and the portions of Samantha's book that we see. The main plot, though, just didn't do it for me.

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RacheLibrarian
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Honestly, I wouldn't mind if the butterfly interludes were the bulk of the book.

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RacheLibrarian
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Time to see how much I can read before bedtime...

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