RaveOn The SeawallEach page of this unique graphic narrative is a visual bombshell collage ... The pleasure comes by way of guessing and fitting the pieces together, though the process might frustrate you until you let go trying to figure it out ... I found it impossible to simply leaf through this gorgeous book. The artwork is reproduced so authentically that readers might imagine the pages could crumble in one’s hands. These are the sensations Green cultivates—fragility and discovery. Frail Sister moves beyond the nostalgia for the past and dwells in what is unknowable from the start ... Green tests the limit of how far a genuine drama may be wrung from nostalgia, a nostalgia so worked over, engaging and convincing that what happens to the speaker seems to have happened to you, or someone you know. I approached the book the way I dipped into my own dead father’s footlocker from WWI, for the secrets kept there. The story requires the reader’s keen attention, to play a forensic investigator, while at the same time letting go of linear logic ... Frail Sister is not simply a graphic narrative made up of a compelling art form—it is a song, a dirge, a mystery, and a tragic lark.
