FICTION
Released: April 3, 2012
"Both a work of social realism and a fable with a moral."
The graphic novel as feminist parable, concerning twin sisters who learn the brutal facts of life, set in New York in the early 1900s.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 1, 2012
"Not simply the story of a disease, but of the flawed, complex, intelligent people whose lives it transformed."
The power of this graphic memoir is not that its story about a family dealing with Alzheimer's is so extraordinary, but that it has become so ordinary.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 1, 2012
"Subtitled "A Comic Drama," the narrative provides even fewer laughs than its predecessor but deeper introspection."
A psychologically complex, ambitious, illuminating successor to the author's graphic-memoir masterpiece.
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FICTION
Released: May 22, 2012
"If artists, as British sculptor Anish Kapoor famously said, make mythologies, then this volume is genuinely a marriage of equals."
Classic literature gets desterilized with the help of the modern world's most daring graphic artists.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 12, 2012
"Succeeds as both a graphic primer and a philosophical meditation."
Powerfully understated in both text and art, this matter-of-fact account of the atom bomb's development renders scientific complexity intelligible.
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