What an unusual book. Even for a graphic novel, Leanne Shapton’s Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry is unlike anything I ever read before. I picked it up because Shapton mentioned Big Star’s song “Thirteen” in her Largehearted Boy Book Notes essay. Yes, that’s really all it takes. Anyway, this graphic novel is presented as an auction catalog, and chronicles the rise and fall of Lenore and Harold’s relationship through their stuff.

Stuff. Huh.

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