Rattlebone

Still thinking about this one months later. “Rattlebone” is the story of a black neighborhood in Kansas City and revolves around a young girl, Irene, as she grows up. Her family and her friends and neighbors make many appearances, and Clair is so economic about making you care about their lives in just a few pages. I legitimately went on a transformation through a later chapter, “A Sunday Kind of Love”: incensed, then understanding, and then in happy tears by the end.

Man!!