Garden of Earthly Bodies illustrated by Monika Forsberg virtuoso comic-strip artist Bill Griffith

virtuoso comic-strip artist Bill Griffith gives voice to a true outcast—the sideshow attraction born Simon Metz (probably) in the Bronx (probably) in 1901

so it would grow strong here forever

Food disappeared

Her mother has left their family

Garden of Earthly Bodies illustrated by Monika Forsberg virtuoso comic-strip artist Bill GriffithSally Olivers Garden of Earthly Bodies is an exquisitely eerie and unsettling speculative novel that grapples with questions of trauma, identity, and the workings of memory. Named a Best New Book by Bustle, Book Riot, and Tor. com Months after her sisters death, Marianne wakes up to find a growth of thick black hairs along her spine. They defy her attempts to remove them, instead proliferating, growing longer. The hairs, Mariannes doctor tells her,