Undertow
by Ellen Lindner
Little White Bird

I read self-published books in public all the time, but it’s been ages since a stranger openly read over my shoulder because they were so interested in the page.  I think that experience bodes well for Ellen Lindner’s black-and-white comic book Undertow.

Within the first dozen pages, the book’s heroine, Rhonda, has a life-changing experience.  She spends the rest of the book recovering from it.

Drugs, gang rivalries and poverty litter this story of a girl whose best friend was taken from her far too soon in life.  And no matter how smart Rhonda is, she can’t move on and out of Brooklyn’s 1960s slums, without coming to terms with what’s happened to her and her friend Estelle.

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