Building Stories

这不是一本可以平铺直读的书，而是一整盒需要你亲手拆开、翻动、摆弄的印刷品：十四本大小各异的册子、报纸、杂志、小册子，被装进一个纸盒里。读者必须自己决定从哪一本读起、以什么顺序拼合——非线性叙事由此成为阅读方式本身。它聚焦一个几乎百分百孤独身障女子的日常，把难堪、沮丧、秘而不宣的生活瞬间一寸寸摊开。有人被这份细腻打动，从牵挂一个陌生姑娘的二十四小时到被一只蜜蜂看哭；也有人因从头丧到尾的压抑而中途放弃，觉得画风久了会审美疲劳。它适合愿意慢下来、亲手触摸纸张温度的人，也提醒我们：当一切都在电子化，仍有人固执地为纸质印刷品赋予形状与重量。

CHRIS WARE is widely acknowledged as the most gifted and beloved cartoonist of his generation by both his mother and seven-year-old daughter. His Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth won the Guardian First Book Award and was listed as one of the "100 Best Books of the Decade" by The Times (London) in 2009. An irregular contributor to This American Life and The New Yorker (where some of the pages of this book first appeared) his original drawings have been exhibited in the Whitney Biennial, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and in piles behind his work table in Oak Park, Illinois.