Eisner Award-nominated artist Mike Hawthorne presents a true and tragic graphic novel memoir about family, abuse, survival and what it means to be Puerto Rican in America.

Hawthorne doesn't hold anything back in this gut punch of a graphic memoir. - Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

Mike Hawthorne's mother is left alone to raise her son in New York City, a city that torments them both with its unforgiving nature. But when Mike falls victim to an old world Santeria death curse, a haunting sign from the old country of something his mother could never truly escape --she begins a series of events that drive him away both physically and emotionally.

For the first time ever, Eisner Award-nominated artist Mike Hawthorne (Superior Spider-Man) tells the true and tragic story of enduring abuse, discovering a love of art, and a passion that helped him to build the home he never had in this graphic novel memoir about family, survival, and what it means to be Puerto Rican in America.

Author: Mike Hawthorne
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Archaia
Published: 07/21/2020
Pages: 160
Weight: 1.3lbs
Size: 9.00h x 7.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781684155453


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/11/2020
Booklist 07/01/2020 pg. 38