Every Girl Is The End Of The World For Me
Brown follows his autobiographicalClumsy(2003),Unlikely(2003), andAEIOU(2005), which recount a series of disastrous relationships, with a day-by-day chronicle of his interactions with five girls (his word) over the course of three weeks. The most unsettling is troubled free-spirit Allisyn, Brown's first romance (the subject ofClumsy), who re-insinuates herself into his life. The sweetest is Stephanie, who works at the coffeehouse he hangs out at; he is willfully oblivious to her crush on him. Visiting pen-pal Lisa and former roommate Thu have little more than cameos here. Unlike the dramatic, relationship-altering events that shaped Brown's other stories, small moments make upEvery Girl, and the rhythms of Brown's everyday life--day job, drawing sessions, video viewing, partygoing, all depicted in his disarmingly shaky drawing style--enhance the aura of the quotidian. If Brown's coterie of sympathetic fans will be relieved at the absence of dudgeon and drama, they're likely also to wish, a bit guiltily, for a little frisson-gendering angst to jack up the energy level.Gordon FlaggCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved