It is 846 AD and what was once the great Empire’s capital city lies ruined and semi-abandoned.
The blessed whore, the faithless monk, the disabled Indian and the honourable son-of-a-bitch. His mother was a whore. His father, English. He didn’t have a surname when a surname was the only means to stave off hunger.
A graphic novel influenced by Todd Solondz’s films and Daniel Clowes’ comic books. Adolescence is hell. Becky knows it and suffers it daily in her own flesh.
Lily Meyer is a writer, translator, and critic. Her translations include Claudia Ulloa Donoso’s story collections Little Bird and Ice for Martians. Her ...
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