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It's not often that a book actually makes me gasp. This one did. At turns surreal, often heartbreaking, and always brilliant, this is a must-read.
Stitches is a graphic novel I'm going to have to revisit sometime soon. Having read it just days before my BIG move David Small didn't get nearly enough time for me to truly consider this book with any sort of metal capacity. This is the sort of story you have to let stew in your brain for a bit and...
Well, that was emotionally exhausting. Small tells the story of his childhood in sparse black and white illustrations that make horrifying events seem even more so, which is the point. The drawings of the adults in his life make them seem like monsters, physically and emotionally. Trauma drips off...
Wow. Very sad, very good.
Heartbreaking.
Disturbing, fascinating, interesting. What a fantastic graphic novel.
Beautiful illustrations give life to the fears and humiliations of David Small's coming of age. What a disturbing and strange childhood! I think this took less than 30 minutes to read all the way through. It's heavy on pictures and light on text. Aspiring artists could learn a lot from Small's gra...
Small is a wonderful author of books for children. I'd always assumed he must have had a wonderful childhood, that he was loved as a boy, that he was a happy child.Not so. Stitches tells the story of Small's childhood and teen years and it is a grueling book. His father, a doctor, tried to treat Sma...
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