

He tries to involve Lester as much as possible, but he's rebuffed, time after time (and none too sensitively on occasions) with a "no" or a "nah". Uncle Kenny doesn't know the first thing about children, but he tries, bless him. Lester lost his mother to cancer shortly after she begged her brother to look after him. The first chapter begins with four seasons on a remote farm. Whilst not ideal we have to prioritise, so here are excerpts from our previous three reviews, the first from myself, the superior two by Simon Robinson. The cumulative impact left a lump in my throat." Loaded with melancholy and loss but above all stoicism, Jeff Smith writes, "The subtle inter-weaving of Jeff Lemire's ESSEX COUNTY Trilogy is brilliant and constantly surprising.
