Heads or Tails is a collection of short stories by Lilli Carré. A super great collection of thoughtful and contemplative narration about every day life. There are little quirky dream-like notions in some of the stories that make them seem like bedtime stories, she's got a great way of making plain stories about mundane life a little more fantastic by gently exaggerating the relationship between the characters inner dialogue and their perception of reality.
There was one story in particular that I've added a few pages from, called "Rainbow Moment", a beautifully written short about 6 different stories woven together. A man is sitting at the bar with his friend, telling a story of how his wife was having a rough day, the colors shift and you're in that story, then during that story the wife explains while she is having an off day, so her story begins and the colors shift a third time. Throughout "Rainbow Moment", this happens a total of 5 times, so there are 6 different characters you're introducted to, with 6 different colors attached to them, each having a bit of a Rainbow Moment themselves.
This particular story, as well as Lilli Carré's others and illustration style in general, make me feel really nostalgic, and I found myself appreciating this story so much. I guess I didn't realize it but I was having a "Rainbow Moment" too.
She was sitting there with an odd expression on her face, like she wanted to laugh and cry at the same time.
- My parents used to call that a "rainbow moment". Like you're feeling both rain and sunshine at the same time and are caught somewhere between the two.
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