This breakout book by Alison Bechdel is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Bechdel's sweetly gothic drawings. Like Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, it's a story exhilaratingly suited to graphic memoir form.
Two women born a generation apart witness the destruction of their home and family in war-torn Kabul, losses incurred over the course of 30 years that test the limits of their strength and courage
The provocative, audacious, brilliant six-volume autobiographical novel that has unquestionably been the main event of contemporary European literature.
Burnett's conviction that love conquers all is memorably embodied in this tale of an American boy who is transported from the mean streets of 19th-century New York to the splendor of his titled grandfather's English manor.
No one interested in what girls experience growing up in our culture today-and the impact that parents, especially fathers, have on the experience-can afford to miss reading this book.
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This is a highly charged, personal story, crammed with pain, discovery, family and first love.
" --Time "Rejoice! John Irving has written another book according to your world....You must read this book." --Los Angeles Times "Spellbinding...Intensely human...A high-wire act of dazzling virtuosity." --Cosmopolitan