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Twelve Percent Dread

by Emily McGovern
Emily McGovern
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A fast-paced, laugh-a-page graphic novel about friendship, capitalism, and never putting your f***ing phone away!
Katie and Nas are best friends, exes, co-dependents. They share everything, including a tiny room in a North London townhouse belonging to their landlord Jeremy, former host of the hit 90s show ‘Football Lads’.
 
While Katie bounces from job to job and obsesses about falling behind in life, Nas has bigger things in mind—waiting endlessly for their visa to come through, while working on a seismic art project that will revolutionize politics and society as we know it. Their friend Emma, meanwhile, seems to have it all figured out—job, mortgage, engagement—yet the long hours working for tech giant Arko and endless wedding admin prove equally dread-inducing.
 
But when Katie’s latest job finds her tutoring the daughter of Arko’s formidable CEO, Michelle, and Emma welcomes the eccentric and enigmatic Alicia to her team at Arko, none of the three women are aware that their lives—and possibly the future of society itself—are about to change forever.
 
Twelve Percent Dread is a fast-paced, laugh-a-page graphic novel about friendship, capitalism, and never putting your f***ing phone away from Emily McGovern, author of Bloodlust & Bonnets and the hugely popular webcomic My Life As A Background Slytherin.
 

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    September 20, 2022

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      • ISBN: 9781506733210
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    • English

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      December 16, 2022
      Irish cartoonist McGovern's sophomore graphic novel slyly examines screen-dependent twentysomethings stumbling through London life. At 25, Katie still lacks steady employment (and income). She rents a small room with gender-fluid, not-working artist Nas in has-been actor Jeremy's townhouse. Katie and Nas are ex-best friends who stay together to (hopefully) help Nas in securing their elusive residency visa. Meanwhile, friend Emma shares a mortgage with her fianc� and has a high-power tech job that includes mentoring enigmatic founder Michelle's latest protegee. Serendipitously, Katie's latest temp assignment sends her into Michelle's palatial home to tutor her precocious, neglected 10-year-old daughter. Multilayered collisions are going to be inevitable. McGovern creates hand-drawn panels in various sizes and shapes, every page a unique layout of striking line drawings in a blue and white palette. Her characters are distinctly simplified--Katie is mostly a bad haircut and dots for eyes; Nas all sharp chin and sprouting crew cut; Emma flowing locks; and Michelle a pointed nose--and yet they prove remarkably expressive. Through shrewd observations exposing capitalism, political corruption, and social media infiltration, McGovern poignantly lays bare an underlying longing for lasting connections.

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