Stitches

David Small is the recipient of the Caldecott Medal, the Christopher Medal, and the E. B. White Award for his picture books, which include Imogene’s Antlers, The Gardener, and So, You Want to Be President? He and his wife, the writer Sarah Stewart, live in Michigan.

出版者:W. W. Norton & Company

作者:David Small

页数:336

出版时间:2009-9-8

价格:USD 27.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780393068573

图书标签:欧美漫画美国绘本社会学/人类学传记漫画graphic_novelcomics

Finalist for the 2009 National Book Award and finalist for two 2010 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards: the prize-winning children’s author depicts a childhood from hell in this searing yet redemptive graphic memoir.

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 statement.

A silent movie masquerading as a book, Stitches renders a broken world suddenly seamless and beautiful again. Finalist for the 2009 National Book Award (Young Adult); finalist for two 2010 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards (Best Writer/Artist: Nonfiction; Best Reality-Based Work).

读后感

戴维是不幸的，出生时呼吸系统与鼻子都有问题，身为医生的父亲认为多照射X光线可以治愈他的疾病。400次射线照射，一个不到一岁的的孩子，结局就是癌症。喉癌，就这样不明不白的植在他的身上。同性恋的母亲，知道自己得癌症对自己强作亲切的父亲，嘲笑自己的兄长，逐渐佝偻瘦弱...  

戴维是不幸的，出生时呼吸系统与鼻子都有问题，身为医生的父亲认为多照射X光线可以治愈他的疾病。400次射线照射，一个不到一岁的的孩子，结局就是癌症。喉癌，就这样不明不白的植在他的身上。同性恋的母亲，知道自己得癌症对自己强作亲切的父亲，嘲笑自己的兄长，逐渐佝偻瘦弱...

读这篇绘本的时候，心里五味杂陈，没有很懂，但是心里不断涌出忧伤～故事中的妈妈抑郁、冷淡、是同性恋，外科医生爸爸固执，哥哥强势，外祖母古怪可怕……每一个人都给“我”成长的路上添了一笔，我在梦魇的迷宫里迷失…… 这个家庭里我看不到爱，看不到温暖，亲情淡得可怜……...  

作者用最真诚的形式，去把自己和周遭的环境表达出来，并没有歇斯底里的仇恨，也没有过多自怜自爱，总体上，是客观的，独特的画风，不一样的视角，这不是一本适合漫画迷读的历险记故事，这只是一个人对过往的一种最真实的流露  

用户评价

acknowledging the truth instead of escaping from it brings up not just the sadness but also the ultimate right solution. Very nice book.

结尾的眼泪说明一切

妈心漫画版，现在想来幼年父母一直选择把我送出去就是呵护了，他们自己知道一直无法与自己相处

隐隐的伤疤和繁复的梦

acknowledging the truth instead of escaping from it brings up not just the sadness but also the ultimate right solution. Very nice book.