The Country Nurse & Other Rural Legends, Myths, and Half-Truths
follows a day in the life of Anne Morgan, the peculiar farming communities
traveling nurse. As Anne checks in on her favorite patients we are introduced to
such rural legends as the boy called Jimmy-Elelphant-Ears, and the Essex
Farmer's Boxing Club! The story delves deeper into Essex County's mythology and
finally reveals how all three volumes stitch together, quilting a portrait of
how loss and regret push and pull at the fabric of family in small town
life.
The Country Nurse is the final volume in the critically acclaimed
Essex County trilogy of graphic novels set in a fictionalized version of
Lemire's hometown in Ontario, Canada.