![]() ![]() The story begins effortlessly with the simplicity of Lemire’s inside cover page, a single image that adeptly introduces the remainder of the text. Lemire’s relentless focus on feet, slowly carrying characters wherever they are going, emphasizes a journey that must be undertaken step by excruciating step. ![]() Lemire spotlights these underlying issues as the characters ebb and flow through the thicket of problems these issues create. Alcohol, drugs, domestic abuse, cycles of violence, family, Native heritage, and of course hockey enter and exit as they are re-called and repressed aspects of Canadian life. ![]() “Pimitamon,” the Cree word for crossroads, neatly encompasses the conflicting and converging choices we make and paths we take as we wander through past, present, and future moments. The fictional town of Pimitamon near Timmins, Ontario acts as a natural stage for the unfolding dramas of everyday life in Lemire’s most recent work, Roughneck. From the local and particular to the grandiose and universal Jeff Lemire easily and expertly guides the reader through life as experienced in the lonely Northern Ontario outback. ![]()
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