Gray horses =

This was a lovely, precious little book about a French emigre who comes to the US to enroll in art school.

Larson's got a great ability to tell a story and advance characters without using dialogue, but when she does choose to use dialogue, she does it rather effectively (and bilingually, which was a nice surprise!)

I tried not to make comparisons to Brian Lee O'Malley's work when reading this, but there are some similarities - they both are good at telling stories that seem like ‘slice-of-life' type stories at first, but with small fantasy nuggets underneath that; by the time, however, that you've fully digested those nuggets, you realize that those nuggets aren't the important parts, the character bits are.