![]() ![]() It's not about angry polemics instead, these monologues have their own energy and life that is both painful and captivating, "This is Valente at her sharpest and most pointed, ably assisted by illustrations from comics artist Annie Wu ( Black Canary ).", ""The real fun of The Refrigerator Monologues comes from Valente's hyper-stylized voice, inflected by turns with pop, jazz, and opera as she moves from heroine to heroine, genre to genre. ![]() They are all of a piece- and they expertly dissect a common type of lazy storytelling that still crops up far too frequently. The women's voices are strong: bitter and full of pain, yet steel-tipped in sarcasm and humor., It's hard to single out one tale. ![]() ![]() Valente Proves Her Adroitness with Imagery and Emotion in this Extraordinary Book of Linked Stories., In this novella, the superhero girlfriend gets to tell her own version of events in the afterlife. ![]()
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