Les Petites Distances #[nn]

A warm, quietly affecting cover sets the tone for this 2018 Casterman release from Camille Benyamina and Véro Caeot — a young woman with curly red hair reads a book on an orange sofa while a man sits at the other end, both together and somehow apart, that gentle physical gap between them saying everything the title promises. Les Petites Distances looks like an intimate, human-scaled story about the small spaces — emotional and literal — that can exist between two people sharing the same couch, the same life.