<b>“You’ll wonder how anything can be so sad and so funny at the same time.” —Lev Grossman, <i>Time</i></b><br /><br />Inspired by a sixteenth-century Zen monk’s painting of a hundred demons chasing each other across a long scroll, acclaimed cartoonist Lynda Barry confronts various demons from her life in seventeen full-color vignettes. In Barry’s hand, demons are the life moments that haunt you, form you, and stay with you: your worst boyfriend; kickball games on a warm summer night; watching your baby brother dance; the smell of various houses in the neighborhood you grew up in; or the day you realize your childhood is long behind you and you are officially a teenager.<br /><br />As a cartoonist, Lynda Barry has the innate ability to zero in on the essence of truth, a magical quality that has made her book <i>One! Hundred! Demons!</i> an enduring classic of the early twenty-first century. In the book’s intro, however, Barry throws the idea of truth out of the window by asking the rea
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