We last heard from Lee Dean in 2018 when they produced the astonishingly accomplished I Am Young as "M. Dean."   The Girl Who Flew Away is a highly intersectional work set in the USA's bicentennial year that centers on Greer Johnson, a Pittsburgh (!) girl from a troubled home and prey to unscrupulous older men who finds herself packed off to the Florida Keys as a result of an unplanned pregnancy. While new life grows inside her, she struggles to forge a workable identity within the highly mixed millleau within which she finds herself and find a way forward in 396 pages of confidently drawn and lushly colored comics in a horizontal (10" x 8") format that was likely chosen as this work began life online.

And there's more to the story as the protagonist finds herself imaginatively (and impulsively) interacting with characters from her recurring dreams, molding the dreams into narratives that are fixed in a historical past and work to help her gain perspective on her own, present situation through a sort of identification with her own creative abreaction.