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What could be a more powerful and direct metaphor for a 1950s repressed family's excruciating commitment to non-communication than for the parents to submit their youngest child to the surgical removal of one of his vocal chord without telling him that was what was happening? It's too much right? He couldn't speak above a whisper for years. And it's a true story. As respected illustrator David Small shares in his comics memoir, this happened to him at the age of 14. Small truly exploits the possibilities of his medium through his cinematic imagery, starkly black-and-white palette, and emotionally charged drawings. His narrative is told with an appropriate sparseness and he lets the images do much of the storytelling. This is an elegantly crafted and tear-jerkingly beautiful memoir.
| Size | | Length: | 329 pages | | Height: | 9.5 in | | Width: | 7.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 28.0 oz |
Industry Reviews
"[This e]motionally raw, artistically compelling and psychologically devastating memoir of childhood trauma....[is g]raphic narrative at its most cathartic." (starred review)
(06/15/2009)
"Graphic in every sense of the word, Small's masterfully drawn memoir will arrest readers from the very first cell."
(07/01/2009)
"[A] frequently disturbing, pitch-black funny, ultimately cathartic story whose full impact can only be delivered in the comics medium....If there's any fight left in the argument that comics aren't legitimate literature, this is just the thing to enlighten the naysayers." (starred review)
(07/01/2009)
"[A] profound and moving memoir...Small's intuitive morphing of images...provide deep emotional echoes....Small tells his story with haunting subtlety and power." (starred review)
(08/10/2009)
"Small's scars--both literal and metaphoric--and the questions raised by this chilling, unsentimental, beautifully drawn book are the sort kids shouldn't have to confront. From the safe remove of adulthood, Stitches reads like a how-not-to guidebook on child-rearing."
(09/15/2009)
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