Reading Comics by Douglas Wolk

Author:Douglas Wolk [DOUGLAS WOLK]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2012-01-23T16:00:00+00:00

In the book’s final chapter, Izzy’s house has burned down, and Maggie (whose coffee may or may not have been dosed with acid by a trio of penny-ante Satanists) wanders near its ruins, seeing the whole history of the building and its curse: the people who lived there before she was born, herself and Izzy playing in front of it as little girls, a birthday party in her teenage glory days, Izzy making a final deal with her devil. The conventional way to handle this sequence would be to show the ghosts of Maggie’s past passing in front of her. What Hernan dezdoes, though, is trickier—the book’s title is singular, and Maggie is, as she puts it, “an old graveyard ghost” herself, hovering around the fringes of scenes she experienced and things she never saw, in the building where she once belonged. That’s the difference between memory and history, Hernan-dez suggests. Memory can lose a crucial detail—like, say, the declaration of love that Maggie’s aching to hear—or dissolve into immaterial nostalgia, but the past is real, immutable, and growing all the time, and it’s haunted by the present.

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