But for me, these are all secondary to a theme of processing memory. Much of Craig’s focus is his experience with religion and love, and the conflicts between faith, personal morality, sexuality, desire and responsibility. Though Craig and Raina start dating at camp, they live far apart and eventually break up. The book begins by exploring Craig’s relationship with his younger brother and then follows different threads of his early life: being raised by extremely religious parents, going to Bible camp and not really fitting in, and falling in love with a girl named Raina. There is no real memory of this that exists for me.Ĭraig Thompson’s graphic memoir “Blankets” traces moments from his childhood through high school. I can only imagine what it must feel like, that stillness, that quiet, that cold. I am from San Diego and have never experienced what I’ve just described. Yet I say perhaps, because I do not know. You open the window or the door to find that the white stretches everywhere. There is, perhaps, a feeling like no other as the morning greets you with a world of freshly fallen snow.
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