A review by trin
Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan

4.0

With his gorgeously detailed, surrealist art, Shaun Tan has the ability to make the ordinary strange, and the everyday beautiful. In the series of graphic vignettes that makes up Tales From Outer Suburbia, Tan offers a peek into a place that's like a Bizarro-world version of our own, a place where a tiny leaf-like alien might come to live with one's family as a foreign exchange student, a water buffalo living in a vacant lot may be the best source of advice, and men in old-fashioned diving suits or silent stick-figure creatures wander the streets. For mature-thinking kids, as well as adults young and not-so-, this unique book opens up a whole universe to get lost in—as well as new ways of looking at our own.