{"product_id":"beverly-9781770462250","title":"Beverly","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNick Drnaso's comics mercilessly reveal the sterile sameness of the suburbs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConnected by a series of gossipy teens, the modern lost souls of \u003ci\u003eBeverly\u003c\/i\u003e struggle with sexual anxieties that are just barely repressed and social insecurities that undermine every word they speak. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA group of teenagers pick up trash on the side of the highway--flirting, preening, and ignoring a potentially violent loner in their midst. A college student brings her sort-of boyfriend to a disastrous house party with her high-school acquaintances. A young woman experiences a traumatic incident at the pizza shop where she works and the fallout reveals the racial tensions simmering below the surface. Again and again, the civilized fa?ade of Drnaso's pitch-perfect surburban sprawl and pasty Midwestern protagonists cracks in the face of violence and quiet brutality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrnaso's bleak social satire in \u003ci\u003eBeverly \u003c\/i\u003ereveals a brilliant command of the social milieu of twenty-first-century existence, echoing the black comic work of Todd Solondz, Sam Lipsyte, and Daniel Clowes. Precisely and hauntingly recounted, each chapter of \u003ci\u003eBeverly\u003c\/i\u003e reveals something new--and yet familiar--about the world in which we live.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNick Drnaso\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1989 in Palos Hills, Illinois. He has contributed to several comics anthologies, self-published a handful of comics, been nominated for three Ignatz Awards, and coedited the second and third issue of \u003ci\u003eLinework\u003c\/i\u003e, Columbia College's annual comic anthology. Drnaso lives in Chicago, where he works as a cartoonist and illustrator.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Drawn \u0026 Quarterly","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50669887652114,"sku":"9781770462250","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c93a6c78-c837-4ce9-a37d-1609b36c228e.jpg?v=1733767653","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/beverly-9781770462250","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}