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Saturday, July 21, 2018

The Saddest Children's Book in the World


A Bubble, the artist and musician Geneviève Castrée’s posthumously published last work, is, in essence, a children’s board book. Castrée died in July 2016. She had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer the previous year, four months after she gave birth to her daughter. This knowledge lends A Bubble the quality of a saint’s relic and makes it nearly unbearable to read.

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