Two and Two and Two Is

Author: Cleo Meyer 

Illustrator: Eliot Humphreys

Publisher: Pitymilk (2019)

Two and Two and Two Is makes slow circles through pop pantomime and a characteristic slow aching midwestern alien agony. Cleo Meyer is mysterious and masterful with the pace of meandering and searching for meaning while waiting to score outside of a fast food joint, playfully swapping a bra on and off of gender, portioning escape by the hands of The White Duke and the wisdom of Donna Summer. This book is an exploration of mood and form and tone that doesn’t lose track of itself. Meyer handles the humor without losing the depth. This book is sedative and reflective, a little world of its own with the radio on.