Firth excels at using the graphic format to convey complex ideas - unsurprisingly, I guess, given she works creating graphic records of workshops. These essays explore aspects of being alive in this time and place - from our connection or disconnection to moment and place (throughout, Firth uses an effective series of light nodes to indicate humans focused on the internet); to sexuality and shame; to how to keep living with joy in the face of a grim future. Firth's curiousity, love of a good story and a good factoid, bring these essays to life as much as her considerable artistic skill. This is a great, stimulating read, which shows how graphic non-fiction can convey things in ways prose can't.