We Come Here to Starve

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In the Midnight Café everyone is starving for something.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The animals who find this place have nowhere else to go. They cannot find their place in society in their relationships or even before God. This decrepit café has become a refuge. A place to hide from a world that has no place for them. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Fly the café's quiet owner serves every animal that wanders into his café. He listens as they each search for belonging only to arrive at the same painful realization: survival and true belonging cannot coexist.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Come sit. The Fly has been waiting for you.</strong></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>We Come Here to Starve</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a hand-illustrated philosophical graphic novel about the tension between survival and belonging. A beautiful yet haunting allegory about the collapse of sanctuary the moral compromises survival demands and the dangerous hunger to be loved without having to change.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>PLEASE READ:</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This book explores themes of </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>self-destruction trauma and faith</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. It includes discussions of </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>suicide abuse and strong language</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. If those subjects may be triggering or upsetting for you please reconsider whether this book is the right fit.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>If you'd like to read Paige Parker's work but prefer gentler themes consider her hand-illustrated book </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Observations on the Human Condition</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. A poetic thought-provoking read that many find beautiful without being intense.</span></p>