Recommended to me by: Mely’s evocative review
A nearly wordless picture book filled with intricate oil and acrylic paintings showing a small, lonely girl’s inner world. A red leaf lies somewhere on each page. Searching for it led me deeper into the paintings’ quirky details.
To Mely, it’s about depression. To one child, it was about worries. To me, it looks like the effect of child abuse, splitting from one’s own body and feeling disconnected from the world.
Highly recommended.
See the author’s website for more images from the book and discussion about it.
Available at bookshop.org as part of the newly released Lost and Found omnibus edition.
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