La Mère et la mort / Le Départ #[nn]

A haunting and beautifully rendered collaboration between Alberto Laiseca and Nicolás Arispe, this 2017 French-language volume from Le Tripode announces itself with striking confidence. The cover presents a skeletal, masked figure huddled in a vast open field — rendered in precise, unsettling ink work — that perfectly captures the book's mournful title, La Mère et la Mort. It's the kind of image that lingers long after you've set it down.