(W/A) Yvan Alagbe. Colonial history haunts this stunning* spectral-looking graphic novel* a spiritual sequel to the author’s Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures. Yvan Alagb continues his interrogation of race and family in modern France. The book focuses on the dream-like memories of a woman named Clare* who is spending time with her family for her grandfather’s funeral. Alagb shifts between narratives of the family* all haunted by the legacy of France’s colonial subjugation of Africa. Alagb works in stormy grayscale washes* using comics* as he puts it* as “a sacred dimension which celebrates* questions and perpetuates life…. I believe that life is not damnation but grace.