{"id":2114,"date":"2022-05-23T22:08:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T05:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=2114"},"modified":"2022-05-20T23:08:33","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T06:08:33","slug":"books-the-love-bunglers-by-jaime-hernandez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2022\/05\/23\/books-the-love-bunglers-by-jaime-hernandez\/","title":{"rendered":"Books: The Love Bunglers by Jaime Hernandez"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0322\/7339\/9944\/products\/9781606997291_300_0a42c3eb-e669-453f-8bc0-0e36c05d2fe7_540x.jpg?v=1600815408\" alt=\"\" width=\"441\" height=\"554\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Love Bunglers <br><\/strong>by Jaime Hernandez<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantagraphics.com\/products\/the-love-bunglers\">published by Fantagraphics<\/a>, Seattle, Washington<br>2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, this book hit me <em>hard<\/em>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This book centers on Maggie, one of the heroines of the <em>Love and Rockets Locas<\/em> stories, and the hardships &#8211; and relationships &#8211; that shaped her and her family from childhood through middle age.  With her family eager to suppress the truth &#8211; about infidelity, abuse, divorce, and painful separations from partners, siblings, and friends &#8211; traumas play out in slow motion over many years, but are not fully healed.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In her later years, Maggie <em>may<\/em> have a chance to (re)connect with the people she loves, before they are truly gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a well executed, well drawn, well told story.  While I&#8217;ve seen elements\/chapters of this in other collections, there is new material here as well, and the way it is all combined creates a profile of Maggie&#8217;s relationships that packs a great emotional punch.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I recommend reading ALL of the <em>Locas<\/em> stories first, to understand more of Maggie&#8217;s life and the relationships (shown here in chapter-length flashbacks) for the greatest impact &#8211; and because the <em>Locas<\/em> stories are GREAT!  <em>(Disclosure: I cried at the end of <\/em>Locas<em> volume 1, so I&#8217;m invested in the characters.  No, I&#8217;m not telling you why I cried.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I love this &#8211; and highly recommend it to all Maggie (and <em>Love and Rockets<\/em>) fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Love Bunglers by Jaime Hernandezpublished by Fantagraphics, Seattle, Washington2014 Oh, this book hit me hard. This book centers on Maggie, one of the heroines of the Love and Rockets Locas stories, and the hardships &#8211; and relationships &#8211; that shaped her and her family from childhood through middle age. With her family eager to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2022\/05\/23\/books-the-love-bunglers-by-jaime-hernandez\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Books: The Love Bunglers by Jaime Hernandez&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[69,88],"class_list":["post-2114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-fiction","tag-graphic-novel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2114"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2118,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114\/revisions\/2118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}