num_pages: 224
description: Claire and Mark are in the doldrums of an unhappy marriage. She doesnt get out of her bathrobe and chain-smokes while slumped on the couch. Mark has lost track of the days and cant get the kids to school on time. Theyve lost interest in family and have pizza and Chinese food delivered every night. Mark sleeps on the couch and has trouble remembering his sons name. He feels like a fraud at work but somehow succeeds. Claire stalks an ex-boyfriend. How could he have left her to this life? Claire and Mark are both plagued by the idea that this is all a dream. Didnt they have different lives? When reports of an imminent nuclear war come on the radio the truth begins to dawn on them: This is not the life they chose.A couple struggles through their unhappy marriage in this dark science-fiction comedy. Why Dont You Love Me? is a pitch-black comedy about marriage alcoholism depression and mourning lost opportunities. Paul B. Rainey has created a hilariously terrifying alternate reality where confusion and pain might lead people to make bad choices but might also eventually led to freedom... maybe.
language: English
title: Why Don't You Love Me?
publisher: Drawn and Quarterly