false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255727610m/6407014.jpg 6407014 2 <p><strong>The prize-winning children’s author depicts a childhood from hell in this searing yet redemptive graphic memoir.<br /> <br /></strong> One day David Small awoke from a supposedly harmless operation to discover that he had been transformed into a virtual mute. A vocal cord removed, his throat slashed and stitched together like a bloody boot, the fourteen-year-old boy had not been told that he had throat cancer and was expected to die. Small, a prize-winning children’s author, re-creates a life story that might have been imagined by Kafka. Readers will be riveted by his journey from speechless victim, subjected to X-rays by his radiologist father and scolded by his withholding and tormented mother, to his decision to flee his home at sixteen with nothing more than dreams of becoming an artist. Recalling <em>Running with Scissors</em> with its ability to evoke the trauma of a childhood lost, <em>Stitches</em> will transform adolescent and adult readers alike with its deeply liberating vision. </p> 6595917 book 8 9 2009 Stitches: A Memoir total:711|5:287|4:311|3:97|2:13|1:3| 711 2999 1789 321 5 3 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 08:00:32 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 04:26:55 -0700 2009 Craig Thompson’s Blankets does. Small’s memoir mirrors the helplessness children and adolescents often feel as pawns in world ruled by adults with the...more...]]> 5 2 false false Tue Jun 02 12:44:28 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 07:27:10 -0700 2009 Imogene's Antlers by David Small has always been one of my favorite childrens books so I was eager to read his graphic memoir Stitches, but not prepared for the intensity of it. With drawings and spare words, he relives his troubled childhood with his frighteningly unhappy mother and physician fathe...more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Jul 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 20:51:09 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 21:28:50 -0700 2009
The background: the author would eventually become a renowned illustra...more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Oct 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 11:43:31 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 08:11:39 -0700 2009
my review from work:
"In harsh gray tones and unforgiving imagery, David Small captures his childhood growing up with distant, unloving parents in 1950s Detroit. His father, a radiologist, often treated David’s minor ailments with x-rays that...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Jul 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 24 19:24:42 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 17:27:46 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 2 false false Sat Nov 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 07 07:51:08 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 07 16:45:02 -0800 2009
I read this last night and was left very pensive. Once wakened by my daughter around 1am, Small's story would not leave my brain. Upon reflection I think I will be haunted by this one for a long time.]]> 0 0 false false Wed Sep 30 12:49:21 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 12:49:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 16 13:08:00 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 17 13:04:23 -0800 2009
When David ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Oct 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Nov 13 12:24:50 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 13 12:25:26 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Nov 12 07:04:06 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 07:24:55 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Nov 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 11 17:30:20 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 11 18:18:15 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Oct 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 15:52:19 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 16:08:14 -0700 2009 Mon Dieu, David Small's graphic memoir ("graphic" as in cartoon) includes titties and men's "things" and a Jesus talking from his crucifix (as one ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Oct 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 29 20:37:13 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 29 20:53:09 -0700 2009 Stitches was recently nominated for the National Book Award in the Young People's Literature category, which is how I became aware of it. The wonderful librarians on the YALSA listserv were having a very interesting conversation on whether or not the Young People's Literature category was its prope...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Oct 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 06:49:19 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 07:03:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false true Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 15 19:27:51 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 15 19:28:52 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 10 18:17:29 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 10 18:37:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Sep 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 14:24:17 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 17:11:13 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 4 2 false false Mon Sep 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 21:49:46 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 22:12:45 -0700 2009 Stitches. But this is no technicolor animation - young David's journey is a painful hell punctuated by emotional and physical estrangement that has obviously had a formative effect on h...more...]]> 4 10 false false Tue Aug 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 14:34:05 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 15:04:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 19 07:59:25 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 19 08:29:09 -0700 2009
I'm sure you're thinking that's an odd way to begin a review, but that's how I went into this book, and it worked for me. I was doing an interview with Booklist last weekend and I asked the interviewer what he thought was the graphic n...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6407014