I Never Promised You a Rose Garden Joe Glass Citizens wake each morning in

Citizens wake each morning in unfamiliar bodies

and deeply honest

to a battle for the souls of a broken family–and one child in particular—in this original story that combines the highs of parenthood with horror movie scares

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By Eleanor Crewes

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden Joe Glass Citizens wake each morning inBy Mannie Murphy. Published by Fantagraphics. Hardcover, 232 pages, Monochrome, 2021. In this graphic novel, what begins as an affectionate reminiscence of the author's 1990s teenage infatuation with the late actor River Phoenix morphs into a remarkable, sprawling account of the city of Portland and state of Oregon's dark history of white nationalism. Mannie Murphy is a gender queer Portland native. This work of graphic nonfiction, told in the style