The Love Bunglers
Featuring Jaime Hernandez's longtime Love and Rockets heroine Maggie, The Love Bunglers explores the suppression of her family history. Because these secrets can't be dealt with openly, they weigh heavily on her mind. But Maggie's ability to navigate and find meaning in her life -- despite losing her culture, her brother, her profession, and her friends -- is what's made her a compelling character. After a lifetime of losses, Maggie finds, in the second half, her longtime off-and-on lover, Ray Dominguez. In taking us through lives, deaths, and near-fatalities, The Love Bunglers encapsulates Maggie's emotional history as it moves from resignation to memories of loss, to sudden violence (a theme in this story) and eventually to love and contentment. Hernandez has been following his longtime character, Maggie, around for several decades, which lends this book a powerful emotional resonance.
Author: Jaime Hernandez
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Published: 05/17/2014
Pages: 104
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 11.28h x 9.00w x 0.61d
ISBN: 9781606997291
Audience: Young Adult
Award: L.A. Times Book Prize - Winner
Review Citation(s):
Booklist 06/01/2014 pg. 60
Publishers Weekly Best Books 11/03/2014 pg. 35
Publishers Weekly 11/10/2014
About the Author
Hernandez, Jaime: - Jaime Hernandez is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning (Will Eisner Hall of Famer; Harvey, Ignatz, and PEN Award-winner; L.A. Times Book Prize) cartoonist and a lifelong Los Angelean.