Big Questions

Didn't do it for me.

Through deceptively simple drawings and a cast of animal characters, mainly finches, Nilsen's almost-fable explores all the heavy themes: faith, fate, one's place in the world, the meaning of it all. I found it to be both an uplifting exploration of the interconnectedness of all beings and a melancholy tale of existential angst.

An enormous (almost 600 pages!) graphic novel, that somehow intermingles the stories of a flock of birds with a grandma and her grandson and a pilot who crash lands his plane. A book that is both simple and profound, sad and happy, quiet and busy, concrete and deep.