"The Night Bookmobile" by Audrey Niffenegger (published 2010)

With drawings unintentionally reminiscent of the rotoscoping technique (in such films as "A Scanner Darkly" and "Waking Life"), "The Night Bookmobile" lends itself to an honest dreamlike quality. Unclear images linger behind their clearer, striking thoughts and dialogue, giving us an idea of reality at its blunt end: that of a sadder woman living in Chicago's constant neighborhood twilight, where even daytime seems foggy and filtered, and still more so on the brightest sunny day. Her relief: the world of books and a nighttime bookmobile at an intersection that holds all the books she's ever read in her life. On that sharp edge of consciousness, readers may be able to connect with the solace and sanctuary that books offer, especially when they are connected in a collection. The mysterious owner of this particular nocturnal bookmobile isn't hiring, but being able to experience it makes it no wonder that our main character ends up working in a library. Niffenegger surprises the reader at the close, with no forewarning, as to how this sadder woman comes into herself by way of dark metaphor...  if you have ever experienced a dream in which you are always going further and further back into a space of a certain place, a space that gets bigger with hallways and corridors unknown but somehow familiar, you will connect with this graphic novel, especially if you have a love for the written word that stems from that emotional shade of blue that covers its whole gradient, from the lightest sense of peace to the darkest saturation of contemplative depth and finally contentment. For serious adult readers only: there is nothing to *lol* about in this one.