Missed Connections: Love Lost & Found

About this book

In her first book for adults the artist Sophie Blackall creates a deeply felt poignant book about lovea book that captures the mystery the yearning at times the cosmic humor behind the what if? of a missed connection. Like a message in a bottle a missed connection" classified (usually posted on a website) is an attempt however far-fetched by one stranger to reach another on the strength of a remembered glance smile or blue hat. The anonymous messages are hopeful and hopeless funny and sad. Ms. Blackall award-winning illustrator of Rubys Wish and Big Red Lollipop has turned some of the most evocative (or hilarious) of them into exquisite paintings. Missed Connections is a collection of illustrated love stories. Theres We Shared a Bear Suit. If Not for Your Noisy Tambourine. Hairy Bearded Swimmer. Each is told in the shorthand of a missed connection and then illustrated in Chinese ink and watercolor. The paintings are extraordinary: delicate yet full of feeling each springing from one little detail of the post into a fully imagined world. Each brings the voyeuristic pleasure of watching love at first sight and the pleasure of watching an artist discover a fresh new way to tell a story. And not all the connections are missed. Hidden in the book are three pieces that conjure up the magic of love found.