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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Time Under Tension

Time Under Tension

Harkness, M. S.

Paperback

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Publisher Price: $24.99

ISBN10: 1683968964
ISBN13: 9781683968962
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Published: Oct 24 2023
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.90
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.00 Depth: 7.50
Language: English

Autobiography about a woman's life in her first year after graduating from art school. This is an interesting drama involving relationships, family trouble, and growing up. I found it interesting as Harkness graduated from the art college here in Minneapolis and features many familiar street corners in her beautifully illustrated graphic novel. -Rudy

M.S. Harkness is graduating from art school in Minneapolis and facing a crossroads in life. She has a strained relationship with her mother, a sexually abusive father on parole, and is in love with an aspiring MMA fighter who mostly hangs out with her to get high and already has a girlfriend and career prospects with a fight promoter. An art career feels untenable -- as one professor tells her, Don't expect to get by on this fucked-up broke girl shit. She decides to get a personal trainer's certificate -- it seems like a feasible and sensible career option -- but continues to dabble as a sex worker and weed dealer because the money is too irresistible. With idle hands due to no classes or full-time work, M.S. has ample time to aimlessly fuck around -- or, to get her shit together. I want to be better, I want to be stable and solid. I don't want to keep aimlessly shifting between untenable situations.

Harkness's bold, precise black-and-white cartooning and eye for storytelling invites the reader in, while her sharp wit and naturalist ear as a writer takes it away from there. Never didactic, always real, Time Under Tension is a spirited and assured work of graphic memoir.

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