Some things just can’t be taken away: Ian Cordingley on THE JELLYFISH by Boum

Some things just can’t be taken away: Ian Cordingley on THE JELLYFISH by Boum

Odette has a jellyfish in their eye. It’s like a floater, only larger, opaque, and, most disconcertingly, not going away. Not a threat, exactly, but it isn’t harmless either. Advised by their optometrist that it’ll eventually go away, they go out to live her life. They’re a university dropout living in Montreal (which is the last city on Earth in which you can be young and have your own apartment), enduring Montreal winters while working in a bo…