Book Review: A Guest in the House

A Guest in the House by E.M. Carroll

Imagine feeling a stranger in your own home, like the ghost of your husband's dead wife still clings to here, to him, to the daughter you wish you could understand, that even lingers to you- as if to ask the question- how did she really die? And will you ever be enough to fit in this space left behind? The graphic novel "Guest in the House" explores dramatic heavy imagery, challenges the burdens of daily life, questions the monotonous every day, and the desperate needs for connections that never seem to be there yet consume. Visual story telling with both a mix of beautiful and grotesque weave a story of a woman struggling, and as a reader, you keep flipping the pages, wondering if this survival or escape- is even possible,