Lead Review

• Book: Building Stories
• Location: Chicago
• Author: Chris Ware

The 14 stories can be read in any order and, together, tell of a brownstone apartment block in suburban Chicago and its three sets of tenants: an angst-ridden mother with a weak heart and a prosthetic leg, an embittered bickering couple, and an elderly lady increasingly withdrawing into her memories….High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. See our Ts&Cs and Copyright Policy for more detail. Email [email protected] to buy additional rights. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/11693824-24f8-11e2-86fb-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz2C8Gg1Bqy

Ware is an exquisite miniaturist, and his use of multiple panels to convey time passing, whether slowly or swiftly, is brilliant. Excerpts from Building Stories have appeared in American publications over the past 10 years, but they cohere beautifully in this book, which is much more than a box of reading matter. Building Stories is a thing to be experienced. FT.com

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