NOW Magazine promises Secret Life is eerie and provocative

Secret Life by Theo Ellsworth from a short story by Jeff Vandermeer (Drawn & Quarterly)

Drawn & Quarterly has a Leonard Cohen illustrated biography scheduled for release, which is guaranteed to attract a large readership, but the graphic take on an eerie short story about life inside an office building promises to be much more provocative. In this mind-bending narrative, all kinds of weird things are happening: mice can speak English while lower-caste workers on the second floor develop their own language. The simple act of lending a pen drives one worker around the bend; everywhere competition for dominance is rampant and nature, too, has gone wonky as vines are growing inside the walls. It’s an allegory about work life like no other. September 28