In Mirion Malle's *So Long Sad Love*, a graphic novel from Drawn and Quarterly, we get an all-too-real mystery story: when do you trust the whisper network that carries the fragmentary, elliptical word of shitty men?
https://drawnandquarterly.com/books/so-long-sad-love/
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This kicks off Cleo's hunt for the truth about her boyfriend, a hunt that is complicated by the fact that she's so far from home, that her friends are largely *his* friends, that he flies off the handle every time she raises the matter, and by her love for him.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_stair
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metaphor for a person within a social group
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https://pervocracy.blogspot.com/2012/06/missing-stair.html
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The missing stair.
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Which brings me back to Cleo and Charles, and the mystery of what Charles did to Farah in art school, many years before.
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Malle's book is packed with subtlety and depth, romance and heartbreak, subtext that carries through the dialog (in marvelous translation from the original French by Aleshia Jensen) and the body language in Malle's striking artwork.
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