Paste: In some ways, Rosalie Lightning is a hard book to recommend to people. Hart answered our questions about it via email. If you have children, it’s almost too painful to read, even as one recognizes its importance. Raw with feeling, the graphic novel shows how we work through grief-walking, thinking, guilt, confusion, somehow moving forward but slowly.It is not an easy read, but its creation was a generous act, one that is both a personal form of exorcism and a way of reaching out to the rest of the world. Martin’s Press, is the result: a thoughtful portrait of the period shortly after a child passes away. Hart dealt with this horrific event through comics, and Rosalie Lightning, out this week via St. You’re doing everything you can to keep her that way.” But sometimes they’re wrong, and there’s nothing that can be done. They might tell themselves all the time, “Don’t worry. Any parent with a young child can attest to the time watching their young children sleep, checking on them, quashing fears when weird noises broadcast over the baby monitor or, even worse, no noises. Five years ago, cartoonist and teacher Tom Hart and his wife went through every parent’s nightmare: their young daughter died suddenly for no identifiable reason.
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