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A review by saidtheraina
Don't Go Where I Can't Follow by Anders Nilsen
3.0
Made me cry, of course.
It's a beautifully designed book, and the story is inevitably heart-breaking.
It chronicles the relationship of the author with his significant other, who died while they were still engaged*.
Letters chronicling their travels, photographs of their adventures, drawings of her in the hospital, postcards from one to the other. It's a bit of a mishmash, a jumble, a potpourri of memories. There's a beauty in the mixed-bag feeling.
I never got the sense of who either of these people really were, though. I don't even know what she did as a career. And I didn't get the sense that she was particularly likable.
I wonder what is missing from the apparently-longer original paperback version.
That doesn't make it any less affecting, though.
My favorite parts where the traditionally paneled graphic novel sections - about their hijinks getting to France and of her funeral. Makes me really hope he does some autobio work in the future.
*I guess that's a spoiler, but really, you should know what you're getting into.
It's a beautifully designed book, and the story is inevitably heart-breaking.
It chronicles the relationship of the author with his significant other, who died while they were still engaged*.
Letters chronicling their travels, photographs of their adventures, drawings of her in the hospital, postcards from one to the other. It's a bit of a mishmash, a jumble, a potpourri of memories. There's a beauty in the mixed-bag feeling.
I never got the sense of who either of these people really were, though. I don't even know what she did as a career. And I didn't get the sense that she was particularly likable.
I wonder what is missing from the apparently-longer original paperback version.
That doesn't make it any less affecting, though.
My favorite parts where the traditionally paneled graphic novel sections - about their hijinks getting to France and of her funeral. Makes me really hope he does some autobio work in the future.
*I guess that's a spoiler, but really, you should know what you're getting into.