{"product_id":"9798875001321","title":"The Past Is a Grotesque Animal","description":"\u003cp\u003eTommi Parrish is an Australian trans cartoonist and one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary comics and graphic novels. Balancing emotional honesty with a keen awareness of the human condition, Parrish navigates fear, loneliness, identity, body politics, queer desire, masculinity, fear, and the ever-fluid nature of all human relationships. The Past Is A Grotesque Animal collects over two dozen short stories of varying lengths, interspersed with ephemera from Parrish's own life: diary entries, photographs, illustrations, paintings, and more. Parrish's autobiographical elements inform their voice as a writer, and the ways their characters constantly find one another adrift in their own seas of experience, current situations, trauma, and desire - and how those things coexist, and how they are complicated by outside forces and internal ones that affect our hardwired need for meaningful connection. The book also showcases Parrish's\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fantagraphics Books","offers":[{"title":"Tommi \/ Parrish","offer_id":56194436202869,"sku":"9798875001321","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0289\/5334\/6096\/files\/9798875001321_3ff5a913-0a29-466f-a925-487ae6e5f03e.jpg?v=1763817855","url":"https:\/\/goldenharebooks.live\/products\/9798875001321","provider":"Golden Hare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}