{"id":815,"date":"2009-10-12T21:21:41","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T01:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=815"},"modified":"2009-10-12T21:23:55","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T01:23:55","slug":"review-of-stitches-by-david-small","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=815","title":{"rendered":"Review of Stitches, by David Small"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/stitches.jpg\" alt=\"stitches\" title=\"stitches\" width=\"186\" height=\"239\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-816\" \/><em>Stitches<\/p>\n<p>A Memoir<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by David Small<\/p>\n<p>W. W. Norton &#038; Company, New York, 2009.  329 pages.<\/p>\n<p>It is always poignant when a successful, accomplished adult tells the story of a painful childhood.  When the person telling the story is a skilled artist telling the story in graphic form, it has all the more power.<\/p>\n<p>David Small is an award-winning illustrator of picture books for children.  His memoir, however, is not for children.  <\/p>\n<p>When he was a child, he was given x-ray &#8220;therapy&#8221; as treatment for a sinus condition.  That well-meaning therapy gave him cancer as a teenager, leaving scars both on his skin and on his voice.<\/p>\n<p>The abuse he suffered is all the more poignant in that much of it was well-meaning, and some of it simply neglect.  In this powerful graphic memoir, he shows us how the world looked to a little boy and a teen going through difficult things at the hands of those who were supposed to love him.<\/p>\n<p>A moving and memorable story.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0393068579\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\">Sonderbooks<\/a> at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/stitches.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/stitches.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stitches A Memoir by David Small W. W. Norton &#038; Company, New York, 2009. 329 pages. It is always poignant when a successful, accomplished adult tells the story of a painful childhood. When the person telling the story is a skilled artist telling the story in graphic form, it has all the more power. David [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,37,2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-graphic-novel","category-nonfiction-review","category-true-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}