{"id":12437,"date":"2024-01-22T12:59:04","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T17:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fosterlibraries.org\/?p=12437"},"modified":"2024-01-22T12:59:04","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T17:59:04","slug":"its-lonely-at-the-centre-of-the-earth-by-zoe-thorogood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/?p=12437","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It&#8217;s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth&#8221; by Zoe Thorogood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Audrey recommends:<\/strong> <em>It&#8217;s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth<\/em> by Zoe Thorogood<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Genre:<\/strong> Graphic novel memoir<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Reading level:<\/strong> YA to adult<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Summary: <\/strong>Zoe, in the throes of a quarter-life crisis, uses cartoons and storytelling to reframe how she views her life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Audrey says: <\/strong>This short volume obliterates the limits of what a graphic novel can do and what art is for. Comics are how Zoe makes sense of the world around her: adding structure, finding narrative, changing perspective, and starting over from the beginning. Zoe draws herself in many different forms: a teenage loser, a cutesy cartoon, a barely-sketched outline, sometimes even a worm. She exists as both character and author on the page, arguing against her own narration. If you also stumble across questions like &#8220;what am I doing?&#8221; and &#8220;what&#8217;s the point?&#8221;, you won&#8217;t necessarily find answers here, but you will find someone who knows the journey it takes to answer them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>This title is available at Foster Public Library. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"12438\" src=\"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20240118_150729317_HDR-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12438\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"12439\" src=\"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20240118_151327978-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12439\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zoe, in the throes of a quarter-life crisis, uses cartoons and storytelling to reframe how she views her life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15986,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_piecal_is_recurring":false,"_piecal_recurring_interval":1,"_piecal_recurring_frequency":"","_piecal_recurring_exact_position":false,"_piecal_recurring_end":"","_piecal_color":"","_piecal_text_color":"","_piecal_global_color_master":false,"_piecal_rsets":"[]","_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[14,16,25,31],"class_list":["post-12437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-staff-recs","tag-adult","tag-audrey-recs","tag-graphic-novel","tag-memoir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}