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Roaming is the story of three young #Canadian women meeting up for a getaway to #NewYorkCity. Zoe and Dani are high-school best friends who haven't seen each other since they graduated and decamped for universities in different cities. Fiona is Dani's art-school classmate, a glamorous and cantankerous artist with an affected air of sophistication.

Cory Doctorow 2y ago

The young women check into a hostel for a hotly anticipated long weekend, which turns into a complicated, moody marathon of debauchery, bonding, feuding, flirting, resentments and wonders.

The Tamakis' specialty is capturing the charged sexuality, subtle friendship power-moves, and intense but brittle friendship between young women. They're *very* good at it, which is why they won a Governor General's prize for their 2014 blockbuster *This One Summer*:

https://memex.craphound.com/2014/05/06/review-this-one-summer/

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Cory Doctorow 2y ago

With *Roaming* we get a dizzying, beautifully wrought three-body problem as the three protagonists struggle with resentments and love, sex and insecurity. The relationships between Zoe, Dani and Fiona careen wildly from scene to scene and even panel to panel, propelled by sly graphic cues and fantastically understated dialog.