{"product_id":"misery-of-love","title":"Misery of Love","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Yvan Alagbé (Author), Donald Nicholson-Smith (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eColonial history haunts this stunning, spectral-looking graphic novel, a spiritual sequel to the author’s Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Misery of Love, a spiritual sequel to the acclaimed Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures, Yvan Alagbé continues his unflinching interrogation of race and family in modern France.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book focuses on the dream-like memories of a woman named Clare, who is reluctantly spending time with her relatives for a funeral. Alagbé seamlessly glides between narratives of the family’s past and present, all haunted by the legacy of France’s colonial subjugation of Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlagbé works in stormy grayscale washes, using comics, as he puts it, as “a sacred dimension which celebrates, questions and perpetuates life.... I believe that life is not damnation but grace.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTold through time shifts that echo Richard McGuire’s Here, Misery of Love is another ambitious, devastating masterpiece from one of France’s best contemporary graphic novelists.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47197977477298,"sku":"9781681379180","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/3532\/5780\/files\/Copyofcategoryimagesforwebsite_29_02c9872b-8e6c-4726-bc99-2564fbe5f23a.jpg?v=1773940978","url":"https:\/\/mfashop.mfah.org\/products\/misery-of-love","provider":"The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston","version":"1.0","type":"link"}