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A brightly glowing leaf effects change in this wordless graphic novel. How much power does a single man, let alone a single leaf, have in the industrial world? In this wordless, all-ages graphic novel, our protagonist discovers a leaf that radiates a vibrant light. He returns to a detailed metropolis depicted in somber grays and blues and searches for answers. During his quest, he stumbles upon a man who knows whats really happening in the citys labyrinthine ducts a woman who spends her life studying and classifying obsolete flora and the truth about the ever-dwindling environment. Leaf is a graphically stunning story that unfolds with a dream-like pace. Shaded in pencil and punctuated by spot colors, drawn in a delicate but concretely realized tonal approach reminiscent of Shaun Tans The Arrival and Chris Van Allsburgs Jumanji, Chinese cartoonist Daishu Mas first foray onto American shelves is ultimately a hopeful vision of the coexistence of the urban and natural worlds.