Description: A New York Times Best Graphic Novel of 2020 ● 2021 Cartoonists Prize Award Winner for Print Comics ● 2021 Eisner Awards Best Publication for Teens Nominee ● YALSA 2021 Great Graphic Novel for Teens
Rediscover the visceral and deeply affecting Eisner Award-nominated memoir of cartoonist Joel Christian Gill (Strange Fruit), chronicling his youth and coming of age as a Black child in a chaotic landscape of rough city streets and foreboding backwoods, now in a brand-new hardcover edition! Propelled into a world filled with uncertainty and desperation, young Joel is pushed toward using violence to solve his problems by everything and everyone around him. But fighting doesn't always yield the best results for a confused and sensitive kid who yearns for a better, more fulfilling life than the one he was born into, as Joel learns in a series of brutal conflicts that eventually lead him to question everything he has learned about what it truly means to fight for one's life.