As a cartoonist, Lynda Barry has the innate ability to zero in on the essence of truth, a magical quality that has made her book One! Hundred! Demons! an enduring classic of the early twenty-first century. In Barry's hand, demons are the life moments that haunt you, form you, and stay with you: your worst boyfriend kickball games on a warm summer night watching your baby brother dance the smell of various houses in the neighborhood you grew up in or the day you realize your childhood is long behind you and you are officially a teenager. "You'll wonder how anything can be so sad and so funny at the same time."-Lev Grossman, Time Inspired by a sixteenth-century Zen monk's painting of a hundred demons chasing each other across a long scroll, acclaimed cartoonist Lynda Barry confronts various demons from her life in seventeen full-color vignettes.
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