{"id":21765,"date":"2020-03-06T08:00:30","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T08:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=21765"},"modified":"2020-03-04T17:25:28","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T17:25:28","slug":"house-of-clay-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2020\/03\/06\/house-of-clay-2\/","title":{"rendered":"House of Clay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/9DAE26E4-7EE8-4A99-B838-676AEF6C941B.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1011\" height=\"1500\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/9DAE26E4-7EE8-4A99-B838-676AEF6C941B.jpeg 1011w, https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/9DAE26E4-7EE8-4A99-B838-676AEF6C941B-150x223.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/9DAE26E4-7EE8-4A99-B838-676AEF6C941B-250x371.jpeg 250w, https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/9DAE26E4-7EE8-4A99-B838-676AEF6C941B-768x1139.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><br \/>\nBy <strong>Naomi Nowak<\/strong> (NBM)<br \/>\nISBN: 978-1-56163-511-5 (TPB)<\/p>\n<p>Not every story should be about overcoming great odds, or triumphing over the impossible. Sometimes it&#8217;s enough just to keep going\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>Painter, illustrator and graphic novelist Naomi Nowak (<strong>Unholy Kinship<\/strong>; <strong>Graylight<\/strong>) crafts in painted style a dreamy yet potent exploration of the uses and abuse of love in her tale of a young girl who turns her back on a wealthy family and identity. Calling herself <em>Josephine<\/em> she journeys to the coast, taking a dreadful job in a sweatshop, amongst broken women and girls, and sewing clothes for unpleasant bosses. The only one she can truly confide in and share her thoughts with is a mute work companion\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>Restless and roaming, Josephine&#8217;s off-duty wanderings bring her to an obnoxious old fortune teller while her unconfined fantasies lead into a romantic entanglement and some life-changing conclusions in a stylish tale of emancipation and empowerment that manages to stay firmly grounded in the unreal, but important.<\/p>\n<p>Colourful, lyrical, sometimes bordering on the pretentious, but eminently readable and beautiful to look at, this different sort of graphic narrative has a great deal to offer the reader looking for more than fistfights or funny stuff.<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a9 2007 Naomi Nowak. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Naomi Nowak (NBM) ISBN: 978-1-56163-511-5 (TPB) Not every story should be about overcoming great odds, or triumphing over the impossible. Sometimes it&#8217;s enough just to keep going\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Painter, illustrator and graphic novelist Naomi Nowak (Unholy Kinship; Graylight) crafts in painted style a dreamy yet potent exploration of the uses and abuse of love in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2020\/03\/06\/house-of-clay-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;House of Clay&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[102,216,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-lifestyle","category-romance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-5F3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}