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David Small, a best-selling and highly regarded children's book illustrator, comes forward with this unflinching graphic memoir. Remarkable and intensely dramatic, Stitches tells the story of a fourteen-year-old boy who awakes one day from a supposedly harmless operation to discover that he has been
… More »David Small, a best-selling and highly regarded children's book illustrator, comes forward with this unflinching graphic memoir. Remarkable and intensely dramatic, Stitches tells the story of a fourteen-year-old boy who awakes one day from a supposedly harmless operation to discover that he has been transformed into a virtual mute-a vocal cord removed, his throat slashed and stitched together like a bloody boot. From horror to hope, Small proceeds to graphically portray an almost unbelievable descent into adolescent hell and the difficult road to physical, emotional, and artistic recovery. A National Book Award finalist; winner of the ALA's Alex Award; a #1 New York Times graphic bestseller; Publishers Weekly and Washington Post Top Ten Books of the Year, Los Angeles Times Favorite Book, ALA Great Graphic Novels, Booklist Editors Choice Award, Huffington Post Great Books of 2009, Kirkus Reviews Best of 2009, Village Voice Best Graphic Novel, finalist for two 2010 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards (Best Writer/Artist: Nonfiction; Best Reality-Based Work).
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Add a CommentI just heard of David Small, from watching a documentary on children's literature. This was a great graphic novel. So easy to read and left me wanting more!
David Small demonstrates the power of graphic fiction in this meditation on family, illness and voicelessness. Readers who enjoy Alison Bechdel's graphic fiction exploring familial dysfunction will love this National Book Award Finalist.
A memoir of a dysfunctional childhood, very disturbing but very honest. Emotionally heart wrenching, Small's childhood will disturb some people. Unfortunately too many people grow up in families like this.
Small packs a ton of emotion into this memoir. A sad, sometimes awful look into the pain that parents can channel to their children.
Read *Stitches*, by David Small. Heartbreaking graphic novel (more pictures than words, but still I consider it having been "read.") This man is such a genius with his scraggedy lines and half-drawn figures.... just beautiful and poignant. (If you have not read it, his graphic novel Blankets is much the same!)
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For any teenager or adult who's been through medical procedures, should not read this unless they are well out of the hospital! A good look at a disfunctional family and reconciliation of sorts. I plan to follow this graphic novel up with psychicatric tales (also a graphic novel). For people who feel they have no voice.
Stitches is one of those books that makes you uncomfortable every second you read it--which is the main thing I liked about it. Small does a great job of telling a creepy, creepy story with great economy of language. The silent frames in Stitches give it an almost cinematic quality. All in all, great stuff.
My first graphic novel and although it was incredibly quick to read it didn't end up being as interesting as the summaries promised it would be. Not an incredibly interesting memoir but overall ok. If you read a lot of memoirs you'll find this book average and leaves you with the feeling of: I've read better but read worse...
I do not normally read graphic novels, yet this one I could not put down. I am still amazed at how the author was able to saturate the scenes with such vivid atmosphere, and express tangled webs of emotion in just a few simple frames. A dark read, humorous at times, with a poignant message and a defiant final note. I loved it.