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Beverly Absolute Truth Press “Salt Magic is an epicBy Nick Drnaso. Published by Drawn & Quarterly. Softcover, 136 pages, Colour, 2016. Nick Drnaso's comics mercilessly reveal the sterile sameness of the suburbs. Connected by a series of gossipy teens, the modern lost souls of Beverly struggle with sexual anxieties that are just barely repressed and social insecurities that undermine every word they speak. A group of teenagers pick up trash on the side of the highwayflirting, preening, and ignoring a