The Weight IDW Akiko Miyakoshi returns with a

Akiko Miyakoshi returns with a beguiling

and Gaston chosen as her town's representatives

and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny

" –Kirkus Reviews

and he's in their small hometown-but every summer

The Weight IDW Akiko Miyakoshi returns with aA rural familys cycle of love, loss, and renewal, set against the beauty and adversity of mid century America Edie comes into the world calmly as the adults around her rage. Her father is a cruel man who beats her mother regularly and much of Edies young life is spent trying to escape this tyrant. Why doesnt she ever cry? Gives me the creeps. Of course, being a child means she lives a childs lifeshe still has laughter filled sleepovers and outdoor