Keeping Two [Hardcover]

A young couple is stuck in traffic, reading a book aloud to each other to pass the time. The relationship is already strained, but between the encroaching road rage, and a novel that hits way too close to home, tensions are running especially high by the time they arrive back at their apartment. When one of them leaves to get takeout and a movie, each of the young lovers is individually forced to confront loss, grief, fear, and insecurities in unexpected and shocking ways.20 years in the making, the long-awaited graphic novel masterpiece from acclaimed cartoonist Jordan Crane. The award-winning cartoonists inspiring new work, 20 years in the making, is a wild and discursive story with a potent message. Crane lets tiny moments swell into a flood of emotion in his most accomplished and moving work yet. ... a gently stunning meditation on loss, absence, and connection. Cranes magnum opus is a stylistically adventurous evocation of how fear and grief create barriers to genuine intimacy. Not to be missed. Deceptive in its complexity and rewarding of multiple readings, A magnificently multilayered graphic novel that empathically addresses the universal human fears of losing those most beloved. When his girlfriend is late coming home from running errands, a man is struck by his fear of losing her. He sets out to find her, setting off an elaborate and emotionally charged chain of events in Cranes beautifully rendered nighttime shadows of suburbia. This is a story so rich and complex that it will require a second, and possibly third, reading.