crabbygirl reviewed Bayou by Jeremy Love
Review of 'Bayou' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
[guessing at the star rating / mining my old FB notes now that they are almost impossible to find]
in a place that contains plenty of real-life monsters and miseries (this is deep south mississipi in the middle of the depression and our protagonist is a motherless black girl who is wronged by every white person we meet - even her supposed best friend), this graphic novel delves feet first into creepy, imaginary worlds. is this a way for the little girl to process all the horrors around her?
the symbols are everywhere - a gollywog coming to trap her in the swamp, a bunch of 'jim crows' descending and pecking open a man's stomach, a bloodhound as a civil war general with his posse of hooded klan members...
in spots, i felt as ill as i did with 'the walking dead' - but these horrible things really did happen.