8/2/24: I found this book at a used book store and bought it, though I already have it, so I can give it away, but I read it again and liked it very m8/2/24: I found this book at a used book store and bought it, though I already have it, so I can give it away, but I read it again and liked it very much, as before.
Original review, 6/12/17: I bought this at the 2017 CAKE (an alt comics convention in Chicago). Galloway, a Chicago artist, wrote the gorgeous and ethereal book In the Sounds and Seas, https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and here she extends her mythological interests in a poetic and fictional account of motherhood, connecting a woman's obviously visceral motherhood experience with the wild, with the earth. That point is not original, maybe, but it is still powerfully rendered, and personal for new mother Galloway, who dedicates the book to her newborn son, Ilan. Gorgeous work that reminds you of the beauty in what we might otherwise think of as the mundane. But I guess that's one purpose of art, eh?