Juliette: Or, the Ghosts Return in the Spring

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She stays with her father, who is divorced, and visits her sister, who is having an affair, frequently. Slowly, Juliette finds herself entangled with the unlikely Georges, a dyspeptic alcoholic who is stuck in his life. espera de voltar a casa para uma visita calma e aconchegante, Juliette embarca no comboio de Paris rumo às periferias.

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Elle sonne, son père Jean lui ouvre en s'étonnant de la voir, puis en s'excusant parce qu'il pensait qu'elle n'arrivait que demain, même si Marylou, la soeur de Juliette, lui a répété au moins vingt fois. Quant au sous-titre, Les fantômes reviennent au printemps, il a un double sens, mais je n’en dirai pas plus. First published in French in 2016, Juliette is Jourdy’s eighth book, and the author shows every indication of having found and refined her visual signature to perfection.At one point, in a fairly representative passage, she finds herself Googling “irregular heartbeat” on a laptop in her childhood bedroom. Elle traîne perpétuellement un air un peu triste, un peu paumé et s'inquiète constamment de son coeur qui bat trop vite. Everything feels different, like there’s this curtain of fog between me and reality,’ explains the eponymous protagonist of Camille Jourdy’s English edition of her 2016 (French) graphic novel.

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Une bande dessinée tout en douceur, d'une grande sensibilité pour la vie d'êtres humains qui ne sont pas des gagnants dans l'âme. A vida familiar, os mal entendidos, segredos e paixões que habitam o lar são abordados por Jourdy com naturalidade e realismo através de um belíssimo conjunto de aguarelas que evoca a corrente impressionista, e fazem de Juliette uma obra de arte madura, emotiva, divertida e sensível.Her narrative spools out with a similarly earnest clarity, treating even her characters’ worst behaviors with the nonjudgmental generosity of an Éric Rohmer film. These divergent paths inevitably cross one another against a gloriously painted backdrop of eccentric small-town living.

Juliette by Camille Jourdy review – an exquisite story of

All information submitted to The Tyee is only available to employees or sub-contractors who are bound by agreement with The Tyee to keep the information private.Aleshia Jensen’s precise translation from the original French captures the nuances of how families talk to each other, alternating between sharpness and hilarity, as well as the cadences of small-town life. Jourdy draws with unassuming precision, capturing her characters in simple, crisp lines that never give way to caricature.