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Building Stories #[i]
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeBuilding Stories is an ambitious, wordless graphic novel by Chris Ware that explores the interconnected lives of residents in a Chicago apartment building. Originally released as a box set of 14 distinct printed pieces—including booklets, broadsheets, and a board game—this Pantheon edition collects the entire narrative in a single, cohesive volume. The story weaves together the experiences of a young woman, her elderly neighbor, and other characters, capturing the quiet rhythms and emotional depths of everyday life through Ware's meticulous, intricate artwork and innovative storytelling structure.
In this quietly powerful installment of Building Stories, Chris Ware delivers a poignant, introspective moment as a woman reconnects with her high school boyfriend through Facebook, triggering a layered meditation on memory, time, and the shifting weight of past relationships. Rendered in Ware’s signature meticulous style—every line, panel, and page layout a deliberate act of emotional architecture—the story unfolds with the quiet precision of a personal diary, capturing the subtle, bittersweet tension between who we were and who we’ve become.
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The woman's high school boyfriend contacts the woman via Facebook. She remininisces and contrasts how she felt about him back then with how he makes her feel now.
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