It's Not What You Thought It Would Be

Plot

In her graphic novel debut, Lizzy Stewart chronicles the lives of two close friends from adolescence to adulthood. In a series of interconnected vignettes, Stewart charges ordinary, slice-of-life moments with a quiet intensity, revealing the complex natures of her characters as life nudges them in directions that they never could have expected until finally, in their thirties, they hardly recognize the women they have become.