![]() ![]() This year also saw two great full-length debuts from writers who had previously excelled with shorter work. It’s a brilliant collaborative effort: you can inhale it at speed or linger over every startling page. American YA writer Jason Reynolds lets his stream of consciousness unspool over three long sentences and 384 pages, while artist Jason Griffin shows blotches, bricks, buildings, masked faces and scenes of incarceration and apocalypse. ![]() Oxygen Mask (Faber) charts a boy’s panicked thoughts as the pandemic and George Floyd’s death dominate the news, while his ill father coughs and coughs “like something in him is breaking up and breaking down at the same time”. O ne of the year’s most gripping works focused on a family glued to the TV. ![]()
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