Offshore Lightning - Saito Nazuna All-time Favorite First sentence: "Surrender

First sentence: "Surrender

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the book achieves something more than simply cataloging these works of art

for capturing and celebrating such wayward existences

Offshore Lightning - Saito Nazuna All-time Favorite First sentence: "SurrenderOffshore Lightning by Saito Nazuna, translated by Alexa Frank 250 page paperback, 6. 25 x 8. 35 inches, published in 2023 by Drawn & Quarterly ISBN 9781770465053 *** Anxiety and longing suffuse incisive portraits of postwar Japan. Nazuna Saito began making comics late. She was in her forties when she submitted a story to a major Japanese publishing house and won an award for newcomers. She continued to work through the 1990s, until she stopped drawing