this graphic novel consists of stories inside of a story - wonderful tales with feminist tones, that talk of romantic love, sisterly love, the moon and magic pebbles. in the end they connect in the most magnificent of ways, so much so that i actually cried.
We land in Early Earth, created by a young goddess, later taken over by her father who opened Pandora's box on that humanity. We follow Cherri and her lover Hero, as Hero tells stories for 100 nights in order to prevent the plans of Cherri's husband (who's a dick) and his friend (also a dick). In this journey, she tells stories of sisters, the moon, love, loss and magic, while showing the oppression women of that world are under AND the clever, ingenious, sassy ways they use to dodge it.
lesson? the importance of representation, by having representative stories within the story

- as shown in Wood's Handmaid's Tale, in a world where women cannot read or write their repression continues; here, the told story manages to break that chain, when it retells the prosecution of the women who dared. The talented way in which Hero tells the stories changes the world they live in. Her stories spread, brings people to their side and opposite the oppressive religious order, making it vanish and start the change to a better world .
lastly, i want to say that the artwork is something else. i'm going to get my own physical copy ASAP.