For a story titled
Still Life, there is very little stillness in this graphic novel. Perhaps that is the point writer and artist Anoushka Khan wishes to make in her debut book. Here stillness is that rare moment of clarity people find within and outside themselves in the midst of turbulence. Khan brilliantly captures a range of still moments and emotions from love and nostalgia to loss and loneliness through her stunning black-and-white illustrations, enhanced by a few lines of narration. The words are a part of the illustrations rather than a separate textual element. In that sense, the book is more a work of art than a piece of literature.