Review:
This is a very experimental graphic novel. Apparently it started off as just a six-page work and was later expanded. The story, such as it is, is presently nonlinearly, through glimpses of a single room (or location, since the room doesn't always exist) over the course of hundreds of thousands of years. Several time periods are shown simultaneously, via little slices of the overall picture. We see how things are in the room's location before people exist. We see history happen in that location (I think the one character is Ben Franklin?), we see the house get built in 1907, and we see people grow, live, and die there. The house itself is destroyed in 2111, but things continue to happen in that same location.
I read a print copy of this. I can't imagine what an ebook version must be like - either it could be an amazingly complicated thing that does the work of connecting the various time periods for the reader, or it could be a clunky mess. I enjoyed reading the print version and spent a lot of time flipping back and forth, trying to trace various events and construct a mental timeline for myself.
Every moment haunts every other moment, as certain views of the room/location draw attention to themes the different time periods have in common. At times, it looks almost as if the past and present are interacting with each other.
Some storylines are never continued or resolved, and the overall presentation is unusual enough that it probably wouldn't work for everyone, but I enjoyed it a lot overall.
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