![]() ![]() I like Quentin, but the character of Alice to me was really, really attractive, and I thought, I’d love to see this story told from her point of view. Sturges: We’ve heard enough from Quentin, right? I actually like Quentin. And I thought about it, I went back and re-read the book, and I thought, well, I don’t know if the world needs one more story about straight cis white boys. And the way it came about was, I got a call from BOOM! Studios asking if I would be interested in writing an adaptation of the novel. Sturges: Okay, so, The Magicians: Alice’s Story is a retelling of Lev Grossman’s novel, The Magicians. Tell us about the premise of your graphic novel, The Magicians: Alice’s Story. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Now, a new graphic novel from Lumberjanes writer Lilah Sturges explores the first novel in the trilogy from the perspective of Alice, a woman from a magical family who seeks out Brakebils and magical education on her own.Įarlier this year at the American Library Association’s January conference in Seattle, Washington, I chatted with Sturges about what fans can expect from The Magicians: Alice’s Story, available on July 10th from BOOM! Studios. The series spun off into a hit TV show on SyFy, concluding its fourth season in April. ![]() Lev Grossman’s The Magicians trilogy explores the school’s magical curriculum with danger, famous alumni, and only a few deaths per academic year. ![]() Brakebils College is where the magic is at. ![]()
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![]() ![]() A family absolved, ultimately, by that bitter but most tenuous bond: familial love. This is the story of a family: torn apart by lies, reunited by grief. ![]() Until, one day, tragedy spins the Sais in a new direction. All of them sent reeling on their disparate paths into the world. It is the story of one family, the Sais, whose good life crumbles in an evening a Ghanaian father, Kweku Sai, who becomes a highly respected surgeon in the US only to be disillusioned by a grotesque injustice his Nigerian wife, Fola, the beautiful homemaker abandoned in his wake their eldest son, Olu, determined to reconstruct the life his father should have had their twins, seductive Taiwo and acclaimed artist Kehinde, both brilliant but scarred and flailing their youngest, Sadie, jealously in love with her celebrity best friend. ![]() This is the story of a family - of the simple, devastating ways in which families tear themselves apart, and of the incredible lengths to which a family will go to put itself back together. A stunning novel, spanning generations and continents, Ghana Must Go by rising star Taiye Selasi is a tale of family drama and forgiveness, for fans of Zadie Smith and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. ![]() ![]() With no other options, Jes become’s the bosses lackey – but when the requests start to threaten the future of the circus, Jes finds himself caught between a rock and a hard place. When the boss gets wind of the bounty on Jes’s head, he makes him an offer: do everything I tell you to, or face a return to a life of torture. Successfully picking up employment at the local circus, everything seems set for Jes to have the relaxed, family life he’s always dreamed of – until he catches the attention of the moon’s crime boss. On the run from those who want to experiment on his gravity powers, Jes hides in the last place anyone would expect an asexual fugitive to be: the pleasure moon. There are a lot of positives, but the last page doesn’t leave the reader feeling satisfied. ![]() ![]() I admire what the novel is trying to do, but it doesn’t quite succeed in melding those two halves together, giving it an increasingly disjointed feel as it progresses. Khan Wong’s debut, it’s part low-key found family sci-fi in the vein of Becky Chambers, and part a darker narrative about trauma, exploitation, and crime syndicates. ‘The Circus Infinite’ is a challenging book to review. ![]() |