
Genre:
Graphic Novel
Themes:
Against All Odds
Family Relationships
Friends to Lovers
Single Parent
Heat Level:
Fade to Black (sex scenes are mostly implied and use euphemistic language)
Archetypes:
Escort / Courtesan / Sex worker
Writer/ Author
Geographic Location:
United States
Setting:
Suburban
Sexual / Gender Identity:
Bi or Pansexual
Lesbian
Men I Trust
By Tommi Parrish
Eliza is a thirtysomething struggling single mother and poet.
Sasha, a twentysomething yearning for direction in life, just moved back in with her parents and dabbles as a sex worker. The two strike up an unlikely friendship that, as it veers toward something more, becomes a deeply resonant exploration of how far people are willing to go to find intimacy in a society that is increasingly not conducive to it.
In Sasha and Eliza, Parrish has created two of the most fully realized characters in recent contemporary fiction. Parrish’s gorgeously painted pages showcase a graceful understanding of body language and ear for dialogue, brilliantly using the medium of comics to depict the dissonance between the characters’ interior and exterior experiences. Men I Trust is about not-always-healthy people attempting to make healthy connections in a disconnected world, and is one of the most moving and insightful works of literary fiction in any medium this year.