![]() ![]() As where ' Julio’s Day' began to sprawl across decades and family lines, ' Marble Season' focuses on simply a few months worth of childhood memories. ![]() Similar to his other recent release, ' Marble Season' uses pastiche, abandoning traditional narrative to tell the story of life. Having the narrative split between three boys, aged (approximately) 4, 8, and 12, Gilbert is able to relay experiences from three distinct periods in growing up which allows the narrative to simultaneously touch on the feeling of being left out because of your age, boyhood obsessions with card games, and the evolving relationship with girls over this period of time. This gives the book a depth that text and pictures alone could never create. ![]() ' Marble Season', shifting between memories from childhood to post-puberty, creates a narrative of moments that are so intimate that they begin to relate to everyone. ![]()
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