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Mo, Lois, Sydney, Sparrow and their wider circle navigate love, work, friendship and politics in a midsize American city. Drawn from Alison Bechdel's long-running comic strip, this collection follows an interconnected community whose personal disagreements are rarely separate from the public arguments of their time. Relationships begin and end, careers shift, children grow and parents age, while the characters continue debating how to live according to their convictions. Much of the cast is lesbian, but their lives are neither interchangeable nor reducible to a single identity. Combining domestic detail with social commentary, these linked comics offer an extended portrait of a community changing alongside the world around it.