The Collected Essex County (Paperback)

from jasonli

"Essex County" contains a series of graphic short stories that take place in around Essex County in Ontario, Canada. All of the stories and their characters are intricately linked to one another, and Lemire tells their tale, chapter by chapter, jumping back and forth through multiple generations....

from clstaff

Poignant, compelling, intriguing are just some words that I would use to describe this graphic novel if I knew what they meant. The amazing thing about Jeff Lemire (and other great graphic novelists) is that he can tell as much story in 3 panels as a novelist could in half a book.

from LynnB

This is my frist graphic novel. I was surprised at how much the author was able to draw me into the lives of the characters with so little text! I found the story very moving and the main characters as fully developed as in any novel. It is a story of family loyalties and of betrayal. I recommend...

from Iudita

I've never read a graphic novel before and I hadn't really intended to read this one - just to leaf through it to see what it was like. However every time I put it down I was compelled to pick it back up again. It was surprising to me how so few words and such simple illustrations were able to in...

from thomaslibrarian

Three separate lives are explored during three different eras in Essex County, those of a mourning, introverted child, an isolated man unwilling to forgive himself, and a nurse who cares for others as if they were her own. All three are oblivious to the roots that connect them all and their simil...