I find myself again wishing for half star ratings on Goodreads! This book would have been 3.5 but I gave it 4 because it was a good graphic novel, just not a great one for me, personally. The art in this graphic novel was great, I really love the way the artist drew her characters. But the cute, round, faces and, what looked to me to be manga-inspired (just slightly), did not prepare me for the depth of the characters or the darkness of some of their lives. It has a happy ending, but it's not a feel-good graphic novel. I really felt bad for the female protagonist, Anne, with her home life with a hoarding mother. For Anne, her room is the only place in the house she has control over and she can keep the hoarded mess out. I was deeply anguished, along with Anne, in one scene where her mother cleans up the living room for her new "boyfriend". Anne is amazed... until she steps into her room to find all of the junk from the living room was shoved into the only place left uncluttered: her bedroom. As someone who finds peace and safety in cleanliness, I felt so sad for Anne.

Anyway, this graphic novel is a slice of life comic, but of lives that are surrounded by things, objects, and knicnknacks. What makes a home, a home? Is it the people who live there, or the objects they choose to treasure that fill their house?