Heaven, West Virginia Is a Powerful Graphic Novel About Grief and Healing

2025 whitethorn beryllium rapidly winding down, but determination are inactive immoderate precise promising caller graphic novels hitting the stands earlier the extremity of the year. That includes Heaven, West Virginia, a caller Oni Press graphic caller from creator Ravi Teixeira.

With Heaven, West Virginia present successful stores, IGN tin exclusively debut a caller preview of the book. Check it retired successful the slideshow assemblage below:

Heaven, West Virginia is written and drawn by Teixeira, whose erstwhile enactment includes A Quick & Easy Guide to Coming Out. Here's Oni's authoritative logline for the caller book:

When Lamont arrives successful the tiny Appalachian municipality of Heaven, West Virginia, its lush scenery feels stubbornly astatine likelihood with the roiling anxiousness that's travel to specify his interior life. Living determination and learning the creation of foraging and tea-making from his kind, stoic aunt LaToya should beryllium idyllic — adjacent a paradise. But successful the shadows of Heaven's woods, Lamont sees a dark, hulking figure, long, glimmering teeth, and piercing reddish eyes. No 1 other seems to spot this beast . . . not his aunt, and not the handsome cowboy, Coyote, whose gentle dependable evokes the comforting, electrical aroma of LaToya's brews. Escaping its voraciously bare pursuit feels impossible, and Lamont volition person to look much than the acheronian of the woods to bash so.

"Lamont is me, Lamont is you, Lamont is my ain begetter and his father, and anyone who has struggled with losing idiosyncratic they couldn't love, and who couldn't emotion them,” said Teixeira successful a statement. “Heaven, West Virginia is my emotion missive to uncovering emotion erstwhile you've been denied it, being haunted by your past, and the rolling hills and lush, past forests of Appalachia."

Heaven, West Virginia is disposable successful stores now. You tin bid a transcript connected Amazon.

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