Evens is the finest ambassador for Belgian illustration since Herge. --The
Guardian
Brecht Evens, the award-winning author of The Wrong Place and The Making Of,
returns with an unsettling graphic novel about a little girl and her imaginary
feline companion. Iconoclastic in his cartooning and page layouts, subtle in his
plotting, and deft in his capturing of the human experience, Evens has crafted a
tangled, dark masterwork.
Christine lives in a big house with her father and her cat, Lucy. When Lucy gets
sick and dies, Christine is devastated. But alone in her room, something special
happens: a panther pops out of her dresser drawer and begins