Stardust Nation, a graphic novel adapted from one of her short stories in collaboration with the illustrator Andrzej Klimowski, is a troubling crystallisation of many of these ideas using the graphic form. What this means is that Nick has absorbed traumatic memories from Tom’s past and is repeating them back as if they were his own. Nick suffers a breakdown as a result of “taking on” Tom’s past. Yet Stardust Nation leaves a mark, an echo of something unsettling made more unsettling by pinpricks of realism. There are tiny shards of your life inside them and their life is inside you too.”• Stardust Nation is published by Self Made Hero.

Source: The Guardian September 16, 2016 09:00 UTC