Laid Waste

Laid Waste

<p><strong>A supernaturally strong medieval widow must decide how to use her powers in this graphic novel.</strong></p> In a plague-ravaged medieval city, survival is a harsher fate than death. As corpses accumulate around her, Agnes, a young widow possessed of supernatural strength, must weigh her obligations to the dead and dying against her desire to protect what little remains. <em>Laid Waste</em> is a graphic novella about love and kindness among vermin in the putrid miasma at the end of the world. As with her evocative debut book, <em>Black is the Color</em>, Julia Gfrörer's delicate, gothic drawing style perfectly complements the period era of the book’s setting, bringing the lyricism and romanticism of her prose to the fore. Black & white illustrations throughout.