Tommi Parrish

A friendship fumbles and falls apart after an uncertain encounter in this graphic novel from a remarkable new voice. Parrish’s emotionally loaded, painted graphic novel is is a visual tour de force, always in the service of the author’s themes: navigating queer desire, masculinity, fear, and the ever-in-flux state of friendships.

The Lie and How We Told It

Men I Trust

Perfect Discipline and Unbending Loyalty

A vivid cross-section of relationships, identity, and the gradations of emotion that color them.

Perfect Hair

Tommi Parrish's sophomore graphic novel establishes them as one of the most exciting voices in contemporary literature. Eliza is a thirtysomething struggling single mother and poet. Sasha, a twentysomething yearning for direction in life, just moved back in with her parents and dabbles as a sex worker. The two strike up an unlikely friendship that, as it veers towards something more, becomes a deeply resonant exploration of how far people are willing to go to find intimacy in a society that is increasingly closed off. Parrish's fully realised characters and gorgeously painted pages make Men I Trustone of the most moving and insightful works of fiction in any medium this year.

An original graphic novel about an unconventional love story. A twenty-something sex worker meets a struggling single mother and becomes deeply infatuated, in this story about trying to achieve a healthy connection in a disconnected world.

Tommi Parrish

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