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<p><b>Welcome Home</b><br>
Clarrie & Blanche Pope<br>
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<i>Graphic novel about squatting, unrequited love and lost
struggles, written with humor and driven by hope</i><br>
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A group of squatters occupy an empty flat in a condemned tower in
London, aiming to unite their neighbors to resist the demolition.
Weaving together confused memories, Welcome Home moves between the
squat and our protagonist’s work in a care home. <br>
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The squatters aim to bring all the residents together to resist
the tower’s demolition. But it’s not as easy as that. Rain is in
love with her housemate Eva, who unfortunately happens to be her
best friend’s girlfriend. She can’t stand Will and his try-hard
activism, and is avoiding Yaz, who used to tease her at school and
lives in the tower. Her life in the squat is repeatedly
interrupted by her work in a care home where she has grown
particularly close to Doris, a resident with dementia, who used to
live in their flat. Through Doris’s stories we discover the
history of the tower and another, older love triangle. <br>
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Shortlisted for the Myriad First Graphic Novel Prize, <i>Welcome
Home</i> manages to deal with the heavy topics of urban
regeneration, care homes, and dementia, while maintaining a light
touch.<br>
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Bio: Welcome Home was written by sisters Clarrie and Blanche Pope,
and is inspired by their experience in squatting and housing
struggles, as well Blanche’s time spent working in care homes.
They want to give readers insight into the class, race and gender
politics involved in both through a humorous look at the way in
which these issues affect the minutiae of people's lives.<br>
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