You can talk all day about what happens in each chapter, but it’s how these important life moments are written. It is these moments and the strength of the writing that makes this story work so perfectly. While the events, are of course tied directly to Brás’s life, but anyone can relate to these moments. Outside of this mind twisting narrative everything that happens to Brás is exactly something that could happen to any one of us and that is where the power of this story comes from. Only for us to find him, alive and well, at a different age in the next chapter. Raising questions like what are the most important days of our lives, will we realize these days when they come, and when do our lives actually start? Is it the days that we fall in love, have a child, witness the death of a loved one? The narrative of “Daytripper” shows us all these moments and more, but with one big twist – we see Bras’s death at the end of each of these days. The format of this story is that each chapter focuses on a specific day at a different age in his life. All at once, he is both telling us his story and a the hapless victim of time and circumstance. With death constantly on his mind, he can sometimes find it hard to focus on what’s important in life. The son of a famous Brazilian writer, Brás is an obituary writer who is looking to find his own voice as a novelist, but his story isn’t a typical one. Written and Illustrated by Fábio Moon & Gabriel Báĭaytripper follows the story of Brás de Oliva Domingos.
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