TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hornschemeier, Paul
TI  - Mother, come home
SN  - 1560979739
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Seattle
PB  - Fantagraphics Books
KW  - BEREAVEMENT
KW  - CARTOONS
KW  - DEATH
KW  - GRAPHIC NOVELS
N2  - Hardback; Mother, Come Home quietly studies the inner lives of recently widowed David and his 7-year-old son, Thomas; both are unable to deal with their grief directly. Thomas, protected by a lion’s mask that his mother gave him, constructs an identity for himself as “the groundskeeper”: ritual and routine, already important to children that age, become paramount to him. He struggles desperately to keep up appearances while his father, a professor of symbolic logic, becomes lost in abstractions. Father and son begin to retreat into their fantasies, but only one emerges
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