Starred Review from Publishers Weekly, Such reflections will ring painfully familiar to anyone who has stumbled around in the darkness of grief. This vulnerable graphic memoir cuts deep.
An emotional and heartbreaking memoir of the authors lifelong struggle with his mothers death from cancer.
Grief never goes away.
When he was a teenager, Jesse Mechanics mother passed away after a long struggle with cancer. In this memoir, he looks back on that time, and on the ways that experience followed him throughout his life. Struggling with school while dealing with attentional problems and the overwhelming tsunami of grief, this book tells the story of Mechanics slow work to figure out a life for himself. Its about obsessive-compulsive disorder, intrusive thoughts, and depressionstraight-As turning to straight Fs, and smiles to blank stares. It's about what loss can teach us, and how trauma can be both debilitating and beautiful. Its about standing in dark rooms for long enough for your eyes to adjust.
And graffiti. Its about that too.
With powerful visuals and thoughtful, poignant text, this graphic memoir challenges readers to keep going in the face of the hardest times.
