CONTENT NOTIFICATIONS
Discrimination: Racial Insensitivity/Racism,Language: Strong Language,Sexual Content: Strong Sexual Content/Themes
The Thud
By Mikael Ross
Edition
By Mikael Ross
Paperback
Publisher Fantagraphics Books, Inc. Imprint Fantagraphics Books ISBN9781683964063
The Thud
17.85
Out of stock
SKU
9781683964063J
This is a YA graphic novel, told from the perspective of a person with a developmental disorder, set in a real village operated by people with special needs.
There’s a real village in Germany called Neuerkerode that is operated by people with mental disabilities - the local restaurant, the local bar, the local supermarket. The author spent two years living 3 or 4 days a week there, researching and getting to know its townsfolk, and the result is an empathetic depiction. This graphic novel is told entirely from a developmentally impaired boy's perspective. Noel had always lived with his mother in Berlin, until one day tragedy strikes and he finds himself alone for the first time. A man with a beard tells him he can’t stay in the apartment anymore and takes him to a place with so many strangers — Who can he trust? Who does he like? Who loves him?
There’s a real village in Germany called Neuerkerode that is operated by people with mental disabilities - the local restaurant, the local bar, the local supermarket. The author spent two years living 3 or 4 days a week there, researching and getting to know its townsfolk, and the result is an empathetic depiction. This graphic novel is told entirely from a developmentally impaired boy's perspective. Noel had always lived with his mother in Berlin, until one day tragedy strikes and he finds himself alone for the first time. A man with a beard tells him he can’t stay in the apartment anymore and takes him to a place with so many strangers — Who can he trust? Who does he like? Who loves him?
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