Special Exits

    (Fantagraphics, 2010)
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Special Exits chronicles the decline of Lara (Farmer’s stand-in)’s elderly parents (Lars and Rachel)’s health. Set in southern Los Angeles (which makes for a terrifying sequence as blind Rachel and ailing Lars are trapped in their home without power during the 1992 Rodney King riots), backgrounds and props are lovingly detailed: these objects serve as memory triggers for Lars and Rachel, even as they eventually overwhelm them and their home, which the couple is loathe to leave.
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