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Praise for The Voyeurs:

"As she watches other people living life, and watches herself watching them, Bell's pen becomes a kind of laser, first illuminating the surface distractions of the world, then scorching them away to reveal a deeper reality that is almost too painful and too beautiful to bear."
- Alison Bechdel, Fun Home

"The Voyeurs is the work of a mature writer, if not one of the most sincere voices of her literary generation. It's a fun, honest read that spans continents, relationships and life decisions. I loved it."
- Chris Ware, Acme Novelty Library

"A master of the exquisite detail, Bell provides a welcome peephole into our lives."
- Francoise Mouly, The New Yorker

"One of the Best Nonfiction Books of the year."
-Kirkus Reviews

"One of the Best Graphic Novels of the year."
-Publishers Weekly

"Best Graphic Memoir."-The Atlantic Wire

"One of the best things going in auto-bio inflected comics these days."
- Art Spiegelman "Memoir and fiction stand side by side, often in the same story, in this frequently hilarious, occasionally melancholy collection that affirms Bell's status as one of the best cartoonists of her generation."-Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW "This new book gathers blackly humorous pieces (published in The New Yorker, Vice and elsewhere) that mix the surreal with the seemingly autobiographical - a Gabrielle figure who, say, visits a dreamy young dental student for a root canal, only to have her molars forcibly extracted by chatty mobsters later in the day. I'm reminded of what Benjamin Cheever wrote of his father John's journals, their commitment to truth endlessly subverted by him as a "fiction machine": "Give him a screwdriver, have him walk across the room, and he'd be holding a hammer.""-Ed Park, The New York Times -- Ed Park