In Quiet Spaces: A Quarantine Journal

By Casey O'Connell

In the spirit of graphic memoirs such as Blankets and It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth, In Quiet Spaces is at once a time capsule and an admission of longing. With a series of intimate confessions and musings that center around the transformative, emotional experience of the COVID-19 pandemic, Casey O'Connell explores the compounding effect of forced isolation on archetypical twenty-something searching. Although she captures the universal experience of living through a global crisis with keen authenticity, O'Connell also draws a startlingly vivid portrait of Lyla, an insightful, intelligent character whose life is woven with loneliness, desire, and small joys.

As she navigates relationships, generational trauma, and a dramatically altered reality, Lyla struggles with private questions sharpened by existential fear: How do you love the family that hurt you? How do you love a self that feels distant and shapeless? How do you love anything or anyone when everything is falling apart?

Alternately desperate, devastating, pretty, and poetic, In Quiet Spaces offers a powerful blend of uncertainty and optimism. With her simple, evocative prose and lyrical interstices, O'Connell's writing is both a punch to the gut and a reassuring hand on your shoulder. Elevated by Eric Aguilar's haunting artwork, In Quiet Spaces will leave you with the same longing and hope that imbues its sparse, beautiful pages.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0DW523NFN
• ISBN13: 9798308062950
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 36 Pages
• Weight: 0.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"