Stitches: A Memoir by David Small

Stitches: A Memoir by David Small. Graphic Lit, Memoir. 329 pages
The story of an artist's bleak and sterile childhood. He has a distant father, who endangers his life through hubris and ignorance. He has cold, withdrawn, and unloving mother who bottles her rage and silently wages war on the world. And he has visits to a crazy grandma who does him and others around him bodily harm. He has an older brother who plays his drums and mostly leaves him alone. David is left alone with his art and his books, and eventually his therapist. The illustrations were moving and produced in me a melancholy which grew mainly from the expressions of the characters as they stared at the storyteller. --Patrick