Paul Tobin

Colleen Coover

Annah Billips and multiple narrators familiar with her take a shot at describing the enigmatic twenty-seven year old, and speculate on whether she really has a missing sister named Ginger, as she believes, or is completely insane.

Gingerbread Girl

Sarah Sammis

Gingerbread Girl by Paul Tobin is a graphic novel that spans the course of a date between Annah and Chili. Annah lives in Portland, works at Powell's, sushi and men and women. She also believes that her mad scientist father removed the Penfield homunculus and turned it into a twin sister named Ginger. With her sister run off, Annah can't feel the intensity of emotions everyone else can and she's desperate to reunite with Ginger.

The events of Annah and Ginger's lives unfold as the evening progresses. To make things more interesting the story jumps from character to character, each one giving their version of things. It starts with Annah, moves to Chili and on through a variety of other characters, including a pigeon and a dog.

As I'm right now nearing the end of Fullmetal Alchemist I am fully willing to belive Annah's story. That said, the book leaves the conclusions up to the reader.

chloe rae

This graphic novel is strange. It's whimsical and weird and I'm still not entirely sure how I feel about it. I enjoyed it, that's a fact. But it doesn't have a clear message, which I think is part of the reason I like it. It ended and I'm just sitting here going over theories and ideas in my head. I'm thinking that's kind of the point. I wanted more but I think this was such an interesting read. Shout out to my friend Anna for letting me borrow it!

Gingerbread Girl

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