This is such a delightful read! It has just the right amount of humor and sadness. It also has one of the cutest meet cute and courtship I’ve ever read in a graphic novel. The artwork is gorgeous and the skillful paneling lifts up the narration to whole new levels of emotion.

It is at its center a wonderful and inspiring love story, but more than that it is also a meditation on old age, death, and second chances. The novel forces you to look at the harsh reality of life and strips off the glamour of youth to reveal not an ugliness exactly—but rather the cruel truth about your mortality.

It explores loneliness and how it makes you look back at your life and evaluate its value so far. It bravely makes the readers realize that our pursuit of happiness is also the pursuit of passion and purpose. And that without both, we may just be better off dead.

Big thanks to NetGalley and the publisher Europe Comics for providing a copy of this wonderful book in exchange for an honest review.