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It turns out that Ridge is carefree

Cruz’s “we” wakes gasping

and always with great food

And while a party with all her friends and family sounds like the perfect send-off

and soon finds herself personally confronted by the horrifying realities of Gumboc’s power

BCB Cicatrix inventoried It turns out that RidgeOctober 2023 Graphic Novel Book Club pick A powerful study in introspection, inheritance, and the manifestation of hypochondria by a talented indie cartoonist. Beautifully illustrated and poignantly told, the author investigates the guilt they carry as a young Filipino person born into a family that benefited from the Marcos regime, and how that materializes within the physical body.