My Favorite Thing is Monsters
by Emil Ferris
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Description
2025 Whiting Award WINNER in Fiction Kirkus Reviews Best 100 Books of the Century (So Far) Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late '60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is the fictional graphic diary of 10-year-old Karen Reyes, filled with B-movie horror and pulp monster magazines iconography. Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, while the interconnected stories of those around her unfold. When Karen's investigation takes us back to Anka's life in Nazi Germany, the reader discovers how the personal, the political, the past, and the present converge.
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Main Genre
Comics
Sub Genre
N/A
Format
Softcover
Pages
386
Price
51.00 €
Description
2025 Whiting Award WINNER in Fiction Kirkus Reviews Best 100 Books of the Century (So Far) Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late '60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is the fictional graphic diary of 10-year-old Karen Reyes, filled with B-movie horror and pulp monster magazines iconography. Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, while the interconnected stories of those around her unfold. When Karen's investigation takes us back to Anka's life in Nazi Germany, the reader discovers how the personal, the political, the past, and the present converge.
Book Information
Main Genre
Comics
Sub Genre
N/A
Format
Softcover
Pages
386
Price
51.00 €