Unveiling Hidden Truths: How Stephanie Stalvey’s "Everything in Color" Transforms the Love Story Genre
The reader grows with Stalvey from childhood to adolescence, through her college and dating years, and into marriage and parenthood. Interactions are conveyed through dialogue and Stalvey’s endearing facial expressions. Meanwhile, text boxes placed throughout the image panels allow adult Stalvey, the reflective narrator, to call attention to the gaps between what her younger self would say versus what she was actually feeling. This divide between feeling and performance was integral to my experience of evangelicalism. At the time, I thought the unease I felt was my “flesh,” my inherent sinfulness pulling me away from God, the devil tempting me into unrighteousness. Now, I might characterize those same feelings as intuition, alerting me to the misalignment between my experience and what I’d been taught.
