I find the artwork beautiful. The narrative's opening section,"The Double Suicide," pays homage to Kahlo's"Two Fridas" and concludes with an allusion to Wyeth's "Christina's World." Patil's drawings range from stark lines and soft charcoal fills to the drawing on photographs. There are a handful of moving sentences: "Fear of heights is a fear of a desire to jump, without wing or buoyant sail" (112). And "whatever love laws have to be broken, the first few seconds suffice" (69). The Charon ferryman metaphor is woven throughout, but not enough to give the story the purported magical realist mood. What might work for storyboards cannot work for a graphic narrative, which,overall, lacks cohesion and fails to tell a good story... Just like any other "wonderful" graphic narratives out there: too thought-provoking, too gritty, too mesmerizing. Such a fast-faced and engrossing read. It's like you could feel the disgust and dilemma and drudgery that envelope and blanket 21-year-old Kari through the pages...More to come, someday sooner or later.I need to mull about it more, and read more often!The language is the language of nightmares, the language of slumber, the tongue of heartbreak, of down-under.
What do You think about Kari (2008)?
"Pain was the chorus of her song." Captivating and lyrical prose with some amazing illustrations.
—Chris
Loved the artwork. Amruta has a different way of story telling, I loved her style
—motion12
