Little Things: A Memoir in Slices
Jeffrey Brown, . . Touchstone, $14 (342pp) ISBN 978-1-4165-4946-8
A comics memoirist in the slightly worn-out quotidian mode pioneered by Harvey Pekar, Brown has already produced a series of books about his relationships with women. This one's a bit more scattered—it's a collection of short pieces about the last two years of Brown's life, including some medical troubles, a camping trip, various interactions with his cat and a lot of not-particularly-momentous conversations with friends. It doesn't quite cohere into a narrative, although the final section, “A Little Piece of Myself,” gives his relationship stories some closure, showing Brown as a new dad meeting his girlfriend's father. Like his earlier autobiographical books,
Reviewed on: 01/14/2008
Genre: Fiction