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The Last Time We Spoke is a book that writer, journalist, and author Jesse Mechanic had been avoiding for years. It is, after all, a graphic memoir detailing the aftermath of his mother’s death from cancer when he was fourteen.

I’ve been told I sometimes fall into the trap of writing a story about nothing—not the Seinfeld kind, but the kind of story where a protagonist reflects on their life, interacts lightly with the world, and then comes to an epiphany with mostly just the provocation of one memory crashing against another.