{"product_id":"in-the-graphic-novel","title":"In: The Graphic Novel","description":"                                            \u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE BETTY TRASK PRIZE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL OF 2021' \u003ci\u003eGuardian \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Starts as a charming romantic comedy and turns into something tender and affecting about our need for connection. I loved this one. ' David Nicholls\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Beautiful, bittersweet portrait of modern life . . . his tragicomedy will also make the heart swell.' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'\u003cb\u003eBrilliant\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e.' Candice Carty-Williams\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'\u003cb\u003eThis is a miraculous book.' Joe Dunthorne\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNick, a young illustrator, can't connect with people. Whether it's the barista down the street, his own family or Wren, an oncologist whose life becomes painfully tangled with his, Nick can't shake the feeling that there is some hidden realm of human interaction beyond his reach. He staggers through meaningless conversations and haunts lookalike, vacuous coffee shops in the hope that he will find it there. But it isn't until Nick learns to stop performing and speak about the things that really matter that the complex and colourful worlds of the people he meets are finally revealed to him.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIllustrated in both colour and black-and-white in McPhail's instantly recognisable style, \u003ci\u003eIn\u003c\/i\u003e is poignant, fresh and hilarious\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cb\u003eMcPhail transforms the graphic novel with a heart-wrenching compassion uncannily appropriate for our isolated times.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWill McPhail\u003c\/b\u003e has been contributing cartoons, sketchbooks and humour pieces to the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e since 2014. His work has also been featured in \u003ci\u003ePrivate Eye\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e. His debut graphic novel \u003ci\u003eIn. \u003c\/i\u003ewas published in 2021 and was a Guardian and \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e book of the year. In 2022, \u003ci\u003eIn.\u003c\/i\u003e won the Betty Trask Prize. Will lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.\u003cbr\u003eThere are few better cartoonists that the New Yorker's Will McPhail, and we can now officially confirm there are few better graphic novelists...There are books which get called funny because they raise a few chuckles, and then there are books which have you wheezing with laughter and reading out multiple paragraphs to whichever long-suffering companion happens to be within hearing. In. is very much the latter kind of book, which makes its bracing dives into pathos and profundity all the more risky, and all the more stunningly rewarding. - Irish Times\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe finest graphic novel of the year was \u003ci\u003eIN \u003c\/i\u003eby Will McPhail, a clever and touching account of a young illustrator dealing with his mother's illness and his own ennui. This beautifully composed debut mixes nuanced observation with hipster satire, and scalpel-sharp one-liners about the things that don't matter with stumbling attempts to articulate the things that do.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBeautiful, bittersweet portrait of modern life . . . his tragicomedy will also make the heart swell. - \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStarts as a charming romantic comedy and turns into something tender and affecting about our need for connection. I loved this one. - David Nicholls\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBrilliant. IN feels so real to me. - Candice Carty-Williams\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is a miraculous book. Very funny, very sad and very beautiful - all at the same time, somehow. - Joe Dunthorne\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA curious, funny and deeply human story about growing up in adulthood. Asks all the questions, and makes a case for real connection in a world full of podcasts and plant-based milk. - Emmy the Great\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe visuals are scrumptious and the yearning for personal connection is deeply relatable . . . McPhail presents [beats] with style and grace, deftly moving the story along with subtle, impactful visual cues . . . 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