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Highly recommended: STITCHES by David Small
Saturday, November 28th, 2009 02:52 pmSTITCHES
by David Small
W.W.Norton, 2009
This 300-page graphic novel is a shatteringly creepy memoir. David Small's physician father, following the medical wisdom of the time, irradiated him many times for "sinus trouble." A colleague noticed a growth on his neck at age 11, but the family dynamic was so nonfunctional that no doctor checked this out until age 14, when the tumor, his thyroid and one vocal fold were removed.
The family didn't tell him that he'd been treated for cancer. That silence is mirrored in his own inability to speak until the vocal fold regrew some 15 years later.
Yeah, my mind boggled too. This beautifully drawn book really does evoke Hitchcock and Orson Welles in story and presentation. So the author's self-aggrandizing in this YouTube video isn't hyperbolic.
by David Small
W.W.Norton, 2009
This 300-page graphic novel is a shatteringly creepy memoir. David Small's physician father, following the medical wisdom of the time, irradiated him many times for "sinus trouble." A colleague noticed a growth on his neck at age 11, but the family dynamic was so nonfunctional that no doctor checked this out until age 14, when the tumor, his thyroid and one vocal fold were removed.
The family didn't tell him that he'd been treated for cancer. That silence is mirrored in his own inability to speak until the vocal fold regrew some 15 years later.
Yeah, my mind boggled too. This beautifully drawn book really does evoke Hitchcock and Orson Welles in story and presentation. So the author's self-aggrandizing in this YouTube video isn't hyperbolic.