A review by iffer
Pawn Shop by Joey Esposito

3.0

Pawn Shop is a deceptively simple story the loosely intertwined lives of four New Yorkers that brings on a lot of feels in such sparse content. Although I didn't love the art style, others probably find it too "cartooney" and diffuse, the facial expressions, body language, and pacing communicate the poignancy of the stories more than sufficiently. Pawn Shop doesn't try too hard like many other similarly-structured stories (I admit that when I read that it was about intertwined lives, I rolled my eyes, remembering when this became all-the-rage not too long ago). Instead of being too coincidental, the contacts among the characters are brief, yet still convey the feelings of human melancholy, loneliness, and hope.

Thanks to NetGalley for the eARC.