As Lina steps into adulthood, she turns to the work of Virginia Woolf
and Patricia Highsmith for insight into who she--and her friends--will
become
It's a typically sticky Toronto summer and Lina's spending her first
couple of weeks after graduation reading and hanging out with her best
friend Cara. Everything's calm--until she finds out that her childhood
friend Alicia has died.
With her high school friends quickly drifting apart and her parents out
of town, Lina tries to make sense of what has happened on her own.
Hoping for answers, she turns to Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse
and Patricia Highsmith's The Price of Salt. As Lina reunites with her
friends for a final party on the shores of Lake Ontario, she finds
herself wondering what it means to have known someone, and who they'll
all become when they're no longer anchored to each other.
Winner of the Expozine Awards, July Underwater is an early work of
Tiohtià ke (Montreal) based artist Zoe Maeve, now available to
widespread audiences for the first time.
"A beautifully illustrated, poetic, at times impressionistic yet
straightforward tale that is strongly evocative of the kind of
reminiscences and reflections experienced during summer beachfront
escapes."--Juror comments, 2016 Expozine Awards
