{"id":607,"date":"2011-12-20T10:11:52","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T16:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/?p=607"},"modified":"2011-12-20T10:11:52","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T16:11:52","slug":"the-floundering-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/the-floundering-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The Floundering Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Find this book in a library near you.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/755072605\" target=\"_blank\">Weselcouch, Katy. <em>The Floundering Time.<\/em> San Jose, CA: SLG Publishing, 2011. Paperback. 159p. $12.95. ISBN: 978-1-59362-222-4.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0pt none; float: left; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-608\" title=\"Cover of The Floundering Time\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Floundering-Time-e1324397454886.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"298\" \/>This \u201cgraphic novel\u201d may speak to 20-somethings just leaving college or about to leave college\u00a0\u2015 at least a comfortable, middle-class, isolated women\u2019s college (aren\u2019t they all?)\u00a0\u2015 with no outward concerns beyond their own close community of friends and love interests, but it left me bored and disinterested within the first few pages. Perhaps it\u2019s because I just came off a <em>Sandman<\/em> marathon, or I\u2019m old fashioned and like story arcs, transitions, character development, conflict, resolution, even in my comics.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Floundering Time<\/em> is Weselcouch\u2019s first comic, following a history of writing zines. It tells the story of Emma and Joey, best friends, in the last week of their senior year at a women\u2019s college, as they plod through the usual drunken parties, car trips, and packing, all while avoiding the future. Several flash-backs round out the relationship concerns that form the bulk of the story. Emma spends most of her frames mooning over her transgender friend Elliot.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Floundering Time<\/em> should find a home in a young-adult fiction collection in a fairly liberal public library that houses an extensive collection of graphic novels.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Reviewed by, <strong>Morgan Gwenwald<\/strong><br \/>\nSojourner Truth Library<br \/>\nSUNY New Paltz<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weselcouch, Katy. The Floundering Time. San Jose, CA: SLG Publishing, 2011. Paperback. 159p. $12.95. ISBN: 978-1-59362-222-4. This \u201cgraphic novel\u201d may speak to 20-somethings just leaving college or about to leave college\u00a0\u2015 at least a comfortable, middle-class, isolated women\u2019s college (aren\u2019t they all?)\u00a0\u2015 with no outward concerns beyond their own close community of friends and love [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,20,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}