The Field Maria Stoian but that you will wish

but that you will wish existed

Ireland experiences a rain of corpses falling from the sky

and suddenly everything changes and you don’t know if he’ll ever wake up

dreadlocked vagrant—frying eggs and singing Paul Simon in his kitchen

The Field Maria Stoian but that you will wishBy Dave Lapp. Published by Conundrum Press. Softcover, 540 pages, B&W 2024. This might be the best story about childhood that Ive ever read (or heard). Its a masterpiece. Chester Brown Dave Lapps new memoir unpacks a long, hazy 1970s summer and reveals that when we look beyond nostalgia, childhood is complicatedand rarely innocent. Daves on the verge of summer vacation and change is on the horizon. Developers have begun digging up a field on the edges