With the first half told in wordless spreads and snippets of newspaper clippings, THE MARVELS broadcasts Selznick's trademark style and artistic mastery. The illustrations show the story of the Marvels, a family of celebrated theater actors that begin with one shipwrecked young sailor named Billy Marvel, whose legacy unwinds in Selznick's detailed yet soft-focused charcoal drawings.

The second half jumps ahead a century and follows Joseph, a boarding school runaway trying to find his uncle's house in Spitalfields. Joseph believes that his family and his uncle in particular are connected somehow to the Marvels. And what he discovers is not too far off from that initial assumption, but in a way Joseph never imagined.

In the final pages, Selznick returns to wordless spreads, and these are the most heart-warming and heart-wrenching images of the book. The boundary between fiction and reality has always been blurred for these characters, and Selznick leaves the reader to interpret the novel's and the character's own ending, a liberating and empowering position.

Even so, #lovewins.