2023 Whiting Award WINNER in Fiction

First-rate prep school, SUV, and a dream house in the heights -- an island paradise was handed to Loren Foster when he moved to Hawaii with his father six years ago. Now, with the end of high school just around the corner, his best friend, Shane, has grown distant. Rumors abound. Loren suspects that Shane has left him behind for a new group of friends. Their friendship is put to the test when they get mixed up in a petty crime. Johnson has a naturalistic ease in exploring these relationships, which sets this drama apart. This graphic novel debut is at once an unsentimental portrait of that most awkward period between adolescence and young adulthood and that rarest of things -- a mature depiction of immature lives. His lush-yet-unsentimental-depiction of Maui creates an immersive, visceral sense of place.

In 2006, critics heralded R. Kikuo Johnson's Night Fisher as one of the most exciting debuts in the medium's history. Johnson won the prestigious Russ Manning Newcomer Award at the 2006 Eisner Awards, the Harvey Award for Best New Talent, and a Harvey Award nomination for Best Graphic Novel. On its 15th anniversary, Fantagraphics is proud to publish this new edition of Night Fisher in hardcover for the first time.

Author: R. Kikuo Johnson
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Published: 10/12/2021
Pages: 144
Weight: 1.26lbs
Size: 9.90h x 6.90w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781683964704

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 2.9
Point Value: 1
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 104842 / Night Fisher


Review Citation(s):
Shelf Awareness 10/08/2021

About the Author
Johnson, R. Kikuo: - R. Kikuo Johnson was born in 1981 in Maui, Hawaii. He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design and is an illustrator, educator, and graphic novelist based in Brooklyn. His bold, graphic, comic-styled illustrations have appeared on multiple covers of The New Yorker, book covers, and the acclaimed children's book, The Shark King (Toon Books, 2012).