Mother, come home - Paul Hornschemeier

From the author of The Three Paradoxes, Mother Come Home is Paul Hornschemeier's piercing graphic novel debut. It secured the cartoonist's place as one of his generation's most skillful and ambitious practitioners, and proved a harbinger of the subject matter that the artist would go on to explore most consistently in later work: the nuclear family. Mother Come Home quietly studies the inner lives of recently widowed David and his 7-year-old son Thomas, both unable to deal with their grief directly. Father and son retreat into their fantasies, but only one emerges.