This book is an illustrated series of misadventures in installments, the first of which (depicted here) I created for The Brooklyn Art Library Fiction Project, 2013. The follow-up installments will be published here on this blog. Delina, the heroine of this series, is autistic (but unaware of this fact) and mute. She is an independent, kind-hearted, intuitive, and visionary young woman who unknowingly founds a new dynasty fated to change the collective destiny of humanity. The misadventures transform a community that has already survived multiple set-backs and catastrophes.
Front Cover: Anomie and Noémie, Brooklyn Art Library Fiction Project 2013
Title page and page 1, Anomie and Noémie
Anomie and Noémie, pages 2-3
Anomie and Noémie, page 4
Anomie and Noémie, page 7 and full page illustration of Delina in her parent’s kitchen
Anomie and Noémie, pages 9 and 10
Anomie and Noémie, page 11, illustration of Delina’s house during the ice storm
Anomie and Noémie, page 12, illustration of Delina in bed
Anomie and Noémie, centerfold, pages 14-15
Anomie and Noémie, Falling into the fox hole, pages 16-17
Anomie and Noémie, page 18, illustration of Delina with the fox-midwife, preparing for the birth
Anomie and Noémie, pages 19-20. Delina’s dream in the fox hole
Anomie and Noémie, pages 21-22, illustration of the fox bringing Delina a dead squirrel
Anomie and Noémie, page 23 and illustration of Delina giving birth to Noémie, with Anomie resting between her legs
Anomie and Noémie, pages 24-25, illustration comparing Anomie and Noémie shortly after birth
Anomie and Noémie, illustration of the root cellar
Anomie and Noémie, pages 28-29, conclusion
Skirting Disaster: Anomie and Noémie, by Rebekah Berger; back cover with Brooklyn Art Library catalog barcode
Skirting Disaster: Anomie and Noemie 