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''Poison River'' is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Gilbert Hernandez, published in 1994 after serialization from 1989 to 1993 in the comic book ''Love and Rockets''. The story follows the life of the character Luba from her birth until her arrival in Palomar, the fictional Central American village in which most of Hernandez's stories in ''Love and Rockets'' take place. The non-linear, magic realist story is complex and experimental. Set in the 1950s–70s, it traces the first eighteen years of the character Luba and her growing extended family as they trek through a fictional Latin American country, while social and political events intrude upon their lives. Each chapter focuses on a different character—Luba herself rarely takes center stage. The story ends with Luba and her family appearing at the outskirts of the village of Palomar at the point when Hernandez's first Palomar story begins. Long-time readers of ''Love and Rockets'' found the serialization of ''Poison River'' difficult to follow, and new readers found it disorienting and offputting. Unlike in his previous serial, ''Human Diastrophism'', Hernandez made no attempt to mold the instalments into episodes to fit the serial nature of ''Love and Rockets''. When ''Poison River'' appeared in book form in 1994, Hernandez expanded the page count and altered and added panels to improve the reading experience. The book was a turning point for Hernandez and his approach to comics and is an early example of the growing pains the graphic novel form suffered in the 1980s and 1990s. ==Synopsis== Luba and her growing extended family trek through a fictional Latin American country from the 1950s to the 1970s, with social and political events intruding in their lives. The story mostly focuses on the people around Luba, focus a chapter on each — Luba herself rarely takes center stage. The story opens as Luba's mother Maria is thrown out of her wealthy husband's house when he discovers he is not Luba's father. Maria, her lover, her maid, and Luba live an impoverished but seemingly happy life until Maria leaves with a wealthy new lover. Luba grows older and her cousin Ofelia joins her. Luba is seduced by an older conga player, whom she marries. Her life becomes entangled with the drugs, gangsters, and sex of the underworld as her husband, who is obsessed with the image of Luba's mother, becomes involved in organized crime and his sexual fetishes. The right-wing gangsters who surround Luba ruthlessly terminate "leftists" in the name of patriotism and business. Events lead Luba, her daughter and Ofelia to the outskirts of the village of Palomar, where they begin a new life. The story finishes at the point where the first "Heartbreak Soup" begins. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Poison River」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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