Book Review: ‘Misery of Love,’ by Yvan Alagbé | NYGazet

“Misery of Love,” by the French virtuoso cartoonist Yvan Alagbé, is a subtle masterpiece of family psychodrama.

Through these little stings of revelation, Alagbé slowly offers glimpses of Claire’s secrets: Her family ran a brothel; her father is a vicious racist; her father was in love with a woman who wasn’t his wife. The Genets are a supremely dysfunctional,... [1239 chars]