An original graphic novel about art, culture and society by zine queen Sonja Ahlers.

This is the first book from this Victoria BC-based artist. Simultaneously reminiscent of the work of Jenny Holzer, Roberta Gregory and Emily Dickinson (with a little Andy Warhol thrown in for good measure), this book combines original pen and ink drawings with text and collaged artefacts to reconfigure genre and tell the story of one young woman's search for a life that pushes the envelope of the visceral. In doing so she discovers a way to trigger the emotions and memories which revolutionise both the world and her notion of herself. With the fearsome eloquence of a shark, Ahlers prowls the buried regions of art and culture, distressing the integral and arcane. This unprecedented graphic novel is a fierce, plangent grace note from the underground, the gorgeous and enthralling site of Ahlers' madly original, purely compelling romance with words and image, the poetics of meaning.