I Never Promised You a Rose Garden Branden Lamb —Ella Bucknall

—Ella Bucknall

Booth covers autobiographical themes of mental health

The Stranger

1 is the perfect introduction to one of 2016’s most buzzed-about titles

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden Branden Lamb —Ella BucknallBy Mannie Murphy. Published by Fantagraphics. Hardcover, 232 pages, Monochrome, 2021. In this graphic novel, what begins as an affectionate reminiscence of the author's 1990s teenage infatuation with the late actor River Phoenix morphs into a remarkable, sprawling account of the city of Portland and state of Oregon's dark history of white nationalism. Mannie Murphy is a gender queer Portland native. This work of graphic nonfiction, told in the style