A review by awhipp17
The Fixer and Other Stories by Joe Sacco

adventurous dark funny informative sad tense fast-paced

4.0

i loved his book Palestine. this one wasn't as good. but, i haven't read anything about the war in Bosnia/Sarajevo, so this was helpful as a primer. he found and followed some interesting characters with complex lives during and post-war. its important to see this. but, it just didn't have the same charm as Palestine, although it was also about a hard topic, he was still able to be both a character in his own story and to find and follow other peoples stories. he wasn't really a character in this book, nor did the people we follow really have much going on, they were mostly bullshitting and describing the past, so things jumped around a lot and we didn't really get a coherent story. and maybe that's the point, that it sets that kind of mood. it just didn't grab me like Palestine did.