It takes a few pages in to figure out what is going on in “Here”. But once understanding dawns, the book has you transfixed. The spot itself is unstuck in time, and is eternal. People come, people go. They have conversations, relationships, pets and meetings. The decor changes, the house is remodeled, the house is first built. People born, people die, experience the same emotions.
But the spot itself is always there, the same angle. Every page has a little nuance, some corner with a little nugget which is referencing something from 10 pages ago, or maybe something 100 pages from there.
USA founding father Benjamin Franklin makes a brief appearance, as the house that was at the spot once belonged to his son. He is mentioned many more times, though. And as he observes, ‘Life has a flair for rhyming events.’ Equal parts funny and poignant, this book makes you think on every page, despite having very few words to be read at all.
Needless to say, the artwork is outstanding. There is so much detail in each page, right down to the angle of the sunset at a specific time of the year. Reading (or more accurately, perusing) this book is an unmissable experience.