Listening Party: “Let There Be Light”

JBI is excited to announce that we have completed our first image-described graphic novel, and in celebration of this milestone, we will be hosting a virtual listening party featuring two chapters of the novel and discussion about the art of image description.

In this ambitious and transcendent graphic novel, Liana Finck turns her keen eye to none other than the Old Testament, reimagining the story of Genesis with God as a woman, Abraham as a resident of New York City, and Rebekah as a robot, among many other delightful twists. In Finck's retelling, the millennia-old stories of Adam and Eve, Abraham and Isaac, and Jacob and Esau haunt the pages like familiar but partially forgotten nursery rhymes―transmuted by time but still deeply resonant. With her trademark insightfulness, wry humor, and supple, moving visual style, Finck accentuates the latent sweetness and timeless wisdom of the original text, infusing it with wit and whimsy while retaining every ounce of its spiritual heft. 

“Let There Be Light” is based on a graphic novel by writer/illustrator Liana Finck and features an audio description track written exclusively for JBI. It is a multi-voice book with three narrators and sound effects. To request this book in audio or braille from JBI Library, please contact our librarians at library@jbilibrary.org or 212-545-8025.