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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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.
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Meanwhile, NYC looms large as it only could in a story about young Canadians in the City. It's hard to overstate the glamour with which New York looms in the imagination of (many) young Canadians. Hence the old joke: "How many Canadians does it take to change a lightbulb? Two: one to change the bulb and one to go to New York and make sure lightbulbs are still cool." Or: "Toronto is New York run by the Swiss; the city that never sleeps...in."
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