A Story

A Story by Gipi. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781683963196.

Silvano Landi is a successful writer who, at the age of 50, sees his family leave him and his life fall apart. Landis great-grandfather, Mauro, is an anxious soldier being fed to the maw of carnage in the First World War. Alternating between past and present, a psych ward and the bloody trenches, and told through complex clues ― a lone gas station, an apathetic baroness, found love letters, and shifting from scratchy black-and-white to lush watercolors (sometimes on the same page), A Story documents the origins of pain that serve as the roots of a twisted family tree, and allows the reader to trace the branches.