{"product_id":"9781910395769","title":"Barking","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Alix Otto is having a very bad day. Easily her worst so far. A year since they fished her friend's body from the river, she finds herself hounded, haunted and driven to the brink. Caught in a situation she can't explain, Alix is handed over to the professionals and sectioned, left alone in a labyrinthine system with her delusions running wild. Barking is a tale of grief, madness and the ghosts that haunt us\"--\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e: \" Barking is everything comics should strive to be . . . a powerful and haunting metaphor for mental health, and the human condition, that you'll never forget.\" -- Jeff Lemire, Essex County, Sweet Tooth Review Quotes : \"Sullivan's Barking is tangible and filled with profound empathy. It's a labor of love, a years-long effort to render those complicated tangles of pain and loss into something shareable, understandable -- not just clinically but in a visceral, deeply felt way.\" -- Kate Kowalski, Doomrocket Review Quotes : \"This is an incredibly dark story, beautifully told. From the tumultuous opening scene to the last splash page, authentic, raw emotion jumps off the pages, offering a small glimpse into a very personal struggle.\" -- Comicon Publisher Marketing : Loopy . . . cuckoo . . . stark raving. . . . When the depression and grief Alix feels over the death of her friend overwhelm her, she's institutionalized. But inside a psychiatric ward, things don't get better for her - now she has nowhere to get away from her rapidly-spiraling thoughts. As Alix navigates disinterested attendants, group therapy, and isolation, she must build herself a new equilibrium and tame the black dog of her depression. Inspired by her own struggles with mental health, Lucy Sullivan tells a powerful, emotional story about the problems that sometimes overwhelm us all - and the failures in the mental health system we depend on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardcover | \u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 124 | \u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2024-02-27\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Avery Hill Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46488772706435,"sku":"9781910395769","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0564\/6830\/8099\/files\/9781910395769.jpg?v=1770336755","url":"https:\/\/sebink.com\/products\/9781910395769","provider":"Sebink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}