Solanin Claude Coats What’s truly arresting about the

What’s truly arresting about the book is how its strange episodes float in the half-visible

and ears of everyone

A gory ritual creates a charming woman's perfect smile

laugh-out-loud

the first African-American woman cartoonist

Solanin Claude Coats What’s truly arresting about theBy Inio Asano. Published by Viz. Softcover, 432 pages, B&W, 2008. Meiko Inoue is a recent college grad working as an office lady in a job she hates. Her boyfriend Naruo is permanently crashing at her apartment because his job as a freelance illustrator doesn't pay enough for rent. And her parents in the country keep sending her boxes of veggies that just rot in her fridge. Straddling the line between her years as a student and the rest of her life,