Book 36 of my 2022 Reading Challenge
Tales From Outer Suburbia
by Shaun Tan
2 stars
Published in 2009, Tales From Outer Suburbia is an offbeat illustrated book with snippets of the unexpected (often dark) side of suburban life. The illustrations are great but I didn't really get into the stories themselves, and calling them stories is a bit of a stretch. There weren't many words and everything was happening beneath the surface which is hard to convey when the stories were jumping all over the place without an obvious through line (other than "suburbia" which I'm not sure I would've picked up on as clearly without the title).
It wasn't awful it just wasn't the book for me.
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