Little Things: A Memoir in Slices

By Jeffrey Brown and Alexandria House

Book Overview

A collection of funny, poignant, and autobiographical short stories, Little Things looks at the aspects of daily life -- friendship, illness, death, work, crushes, love, jealousy, and fatherhood -- we take for granted. As each story loops into others, Jeffrey Brown shows how the smallest andseemingly most insignificant parts of everyday life can end up becoming the most meaningful. Brown's first full-length autobiographical book in several years, Little Things is also his most impressive, touching, and true.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1416549463
• ISBN13: 9781416549468
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Touchstone Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Nice evolution of a great talent

All I had read of Jeffrey Brown's before this was Mini-Sulk and some work he did for Drawn & Quarterly Showcase - all of which is pretty dang funny: little two page chunks of anecdotes, usually about relationships. He has moved away from both areas he's been comfortable with in this pretty large book (for him). Not too much is spent on his relationships (often leaving them to one panel in a larger story) and most of the stories are the size of his previous books. Alot of them tend to focus on , as the title suggest, little things...meeting friends for a hike, getting a cat, having surgery, and so on. It's fun, but he still has this tendency to just end stuff abruptly. I suppose most of the stories really can't have any big revelations but, there ya go.