Gray Horses
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Noémie is a French exchange student, on her own for the first time. In Onion City she brefriends Anna, a baker's daughter who sculpts in bread, and finds herself the target of a mysterious photographer. But, it's not until she falls asleep that things really get weird.
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This was a lovely, precious little book about a French emigre who comes to the US to enroll in art school.
Larson's got a great ability to tell a story and advance characters without using dialogue, but when she does choose to use dialogue, she does it rather effectively (and bilingually, which was a nice surprise!)
I tried not to make comparisons to Brian Lee O'Malley's work when reading this, but there are some similarities - they both are good at telling stories that seem like ‘slice-of-life' type stories at first, but with small fantasy nuggets underneath that; by the time, however, that you've fully digested those nuggets, you realize that those nuggets aren't the important parts, the character bits are.
