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Title	:	Stitches
Author	:	David Small
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 329 pages
Published	:	September 8th 2009 by W. W. Norton & Company
Categories	:	Sequential Art. Graphic Novels. Autobiography. Memoir. Comics. Nonfiction

Stitches

David Small

Hardcover | Pages: 329 pages

Rating: 4.04 | 23123 Users | 2956 Reviews

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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 cancer and was expected to die.

In Stitches, Small, the award-winning children’s illustrator and author, re-creates this terrifying event in a life story that might have been imagined by Kafka. As the images painfully tumble out, one by one, we gain a ringside seat at a gothic family drama where David—a highly anxious yet supremely talented child—all too often became the unwitting object of his parents’ buried frustration and rage.

Believing that they were trying to do their best, David’s parents did just the reverse. Edward Small, a Detroit physician, who vented his own anger by hitting a punching bag, was convinced that he could cure his young son’s respiratory problems with heavy doses of radiation, possibly causing David’s cancer. Elizabeth, David’s mother, tyrannically stingy and excessively scolding, ran the Small household under a cone of silence where emotions, especially her own, were hidden.

Depicting this coming-of-age story with dazzling, kaleidoscopic images that turn nightmare into fairy tale, Small tells us of his journey from sickly child to cancer patient, to the troubled teen whose risky decision to run away from home at sixteen—with nothing more than the dream of becoming an artist—will resonate as the ultimate survival statemen.

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Original Title:	Stitches: A Memoir
ISBN:	0393068579 (ISBN13: 9780393068573)
Edition Language:	English URL http://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail.aspx?ID=12185
Setting:	Detroit, Michigan(United States)
Literary Awards:	Pennsylvania Young Readers' Choice Award Nominee (2011), ALA Alex Award (2010), National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature (2009), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction & Graphic Novel (2009)

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Graphic Novels. They Arent Books. They have no literary value.Sigh.I have often heard this. Repeatedly. Books like Stitches are the reason that the argument against graphic novels not being literature heavyweights is so brainless. This story is poignant, as well as painful and oh so very real.David Small is a famous childrens illustrator who took his childhood memories held them, squeezed them, and wrapped them up into a ball and served us this novel. His childhood was not a happy one; Dad was

My Goodness. Horrendously cruel and unloving parents, a nasty grandma, lies and a shocking surprise lead to a nightmare of a memoir and rather disturbing, but powerful work of graphic art.STITCHES is aptly named with creepy book cover and illustrations to match dipicting a horror of a family and a sad child turned troubled teen. "When you have no voice, you don't exist." Interesting and unusual medical reveal about David's mother at the conclusion.

I was highly impressed with this book, way more than I thought I would be. When I bought it, it was on a whim. I had never heard of David Small, I don't know who he is or what he does. I was taken in by the cover, the fact that it was a memoir written in graphic novel style, and with a quick skim through it I knew I liked the artist's style and would enjoy the story. This isn't a happy story, it's quite dark, and you can't help but think it must be fiction. This can't actually be true. This

This is officially my favorite graphic memoir! Loved it so much!

Such strange compressions of time: 24 years of the most significant moments in the author's life laid out in comparatively spare, sane, elegant, mature, b&w drawings (compared to the work of many other leading graphic artists) over 329 pages that surely took years to complete, read in an "enjoyable" hour, immersed in that sort of cinematic bookishness that comes from turning pages so much more quickly than those covered in text. A great passage of pages where the kid-aged author dives

I'm enjoying my TBR Explode project because it's reintroducing me to books I added to my TBR ten years ago. This one was added the day after it came out in September 2009, so I must have been looking at some kind of new releases list.This is a graphic memoir about the authors childhood illness and surgery and upbringing. It is DARK. He uses a lot of black and white which makes the entire situation seem bleak (and to be fair, it is,) with depictions of fear and scary and judging faces. David's

I bought with the intent of putting it in my classroom library, but I don't think I'm brave enough -- at least not for 8th graders. 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 might expect, he was cross). The coup de grâce, though, comes in the form of a panel showing a neighbor lady getting out of bed with his mother (he stumbled into the bedroom at an inopportune moment -- that is, when he