A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Best Book of the Year
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An NPR Best Book of the Year, Best Memoir
With this stunning graphic memoir, David Small takes readers on an unforgettable journey into the dark heart of his tumultuous childhood in 1950s Detroit, in a coming-of-age tale like no other.
At the age of fourteen, David awoke from a supposedly harmless operation to discover his throat had been slashed and one of his vocal chords removed, leaving him a virtual mute. No one had told him that he had cancer and was expected to die. The resulting silence was in keeping with the atmosphere of secrecy and repressed frustration that pervaded the Small household and revealed itself in the slamming of cupboard doors, the thumping of a punching bag, the beating of a drum.
Believing that they were doing their best, Davidâs parents did just the reverse. Davidâs mother held the family emotionally hostage with her furious withdrawals, even as she kept her emotions hidden â including from herself. His father, rarely present, was a radiologist, and although David grew up looking at X-rays and drawing on X-ray paper, it would be years before he discovered the shocking consequences of his fatherâs faith in science.
A work of great bravery and humanity, Stitches is a gripping and ultimately redemptive story of a manâs struggle to understand the past and reclaim his voice.
Categories:
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Graphic Novels
- Biographies & History
- Graphic Novels
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Author : Small, David
Language : English
Edition : Reprint
Published :2010-09-14
Number Of Pages : 336
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 077108112X
ISBN-13 : 9780771081125
Item weight : 1.4 lb
Dimensions : 0.87 in x 6.93 in x 8.9 in
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