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Your mother doesn't love you. Page 255
The old adage, "A picture is worth a thousand words" deepens in meaning when confronted with David Small's emotional cartoons in his recently released memoir, Stitches.
Too often it is easy to diminish the experience of a young boy's reality. Visually watching life unfold through his eyes, seeing what he sees at the moment he sees it, creates unforgettable moments.
Particularly when confronted with cancer, parents who have society on the brain, and the overwhelming powerlessness equivalent to being a child.
These ogres David Small confronted in his childhood are not the monsters of Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are. They are larger and more damaging, because they are not imagined but very, very real.
Stitches is a quick read, with its 325 pages of graphic cartoons. But this is a keeper; a book to be read again and again for what it does not say.
As another David, David Shirley travels through Hoquiam, Washington on his 4200 mile North American trip to raise awareness for prostate cancer, author Jack Gantos suggests readers "Add David Small's book to the illustrated bible of artists who have had to will themselves- invent themselves- and ultimately seize success as the only way to keep the gritty, dark beginning of a home life from snuffing them out altogether."
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