The River Troll: A Story About Love in Color
By Rich Théroux
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or INDIGO or Audiobook
If you are looking for the earlier black and white edition, order this one instead.
Media: The Calgary Herald Oct. 21, 2021 | The print layout | The online version
The River Troll, Special Color Edition, is strange and darkly comic illustrated Y/A novel featuring a nameless protagonist we call “friend.” Late at night our friend wanders a little and ponders quite a lot on a long walk along a river looking for a reason to keep on living. He meets up with a troll and a few other all-night ghouls as he drifts along, searching for purpose. They all find it amazing our friend can negotiate his way through the day posing as a junior high school art teacher.
Excerpt: “The troll sits. Strangely when he sits under the bridge his head is still near the roof. Wasn’t his head touching the roof when he was standing? He sits. He still fills the space. I’ll tell you a story, but you better send a tasty child my way or I’m not telling you any more.”