David Small's memior Stitches has been getting a lot of buzz lately, most recently as an Alex Award winner. The Alex Awards are books for adults with great teen appeal. Stitches, is an absolutely amazing graphic novel that covers Small's childhood. His mother was a bitter penny pincher who was incapable of giving him any love. His father was a frustrated doctor who tried to cure Small's asthma with radation, which ended up giving him cancer.
I read this book in less than a day, not because of the fact that its a graphic novel, the illustrations actually kept me glued to the page. The story itself was mesmerizing and made me want to learn more and more about the Small family.
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