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It's funny, politically astute, and heartbreaking. It's graphic novel poetry.-Sherman Alexie, author of The Toughest Indian in the World
Pantheon
March 2006
288 pages
ISBN: 0375423656
Hardcover
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Graphic Novel
From the Harvey and Lulu award--winning creator of
Artbabe comes this riveting story of a young woman’s
misadventures in Mexico City. Carla, an American estranged
from her Mexican father, heads to Mexico City to "find
herself." She crashes with a former fling, Harry, who has
been drinking his way through the capital in the great
tradition of his heroes, William S. Burroughs and Jack
Kerouac. Harry is good-humored about Carla’s reappearance on
his doorstep--until he realizes that Carla, who spends her
days soaking in the city, exploring Frida Kahlo’s house, and
learning Spanish, has no intention of leaving.
When
Harry and Carla’s relationship of mutual tolerance reaches
its inevitable end, she rejects his world of Anglo expats
for her own set of friends: pretty-boy Oscar, who sells pot
and dreams of being a DJ, and charismatic Memo, a left-wing,
pseudo--intellectual ladies’ man. Determined to experience
the real Mexico, Carla turns a blind eye to her new friends’
inconsistencies. But then she catches the eye of a drug don,
el Gordo, and from that moment on her life gets a lot more
complicated, and she is forced to confront the irreparable
consequences of her willful innocence.
Jessica Abel’s
evocative black--and--white drawings and creative mix of
English and Spanish bring Mexico City’s past and present to
life, unfurling Carla’s dark history against the legacies of
Burroughs and Kahlo. A story about the youthful desire to
live an authentic life and the consequences of trusting easy
answers, La Perdida--at once grounded in the
particulars of life in Mexico and resonantly universal--is a
story about finding oneself by getting lost.
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