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The first and only comic book artist ever to win a National Book Award returns with a haunting tale of intimacy, guilt, and collective amnesia.As the sun sets on the 1970s, the spirit of the Love Generation still lingers among the aging hippies of one "intentional community" high in the Ozarks. But what's missing?Under impossibly close scrutiny, two families wrestle with long-repressed secrets... while deep within those Arkansas hills, something monstrous stirs, ready to feast on village whispers.Nate Powell, artist of the National Book Award-winning March trilogy returns with a new creator-owned graphic novel.
About the Author
Nate Powell is the first cartoonist ever to win the National Book Award. Born in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1978, he began self-publishing at age 14.His work includes brand new memoir/essay hybrid SAVE IT FOR LATER, Eisner-nominated Ozark horror-fairytale COME AGAIN, civil rights icon John Lewis' legendary graphic memoir trilogy MARCH, TWO DEAD, YOU DON'T SAY, ANY EMPIRE, SWALLOW ME WHOLE, THE SILENCE OF OUR FRIENDS, THE YEAR OF THE BEASTS, and Rick Riordan's THE LOST HERO.Powell's work has also received a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, three Eisner Awards, the Michael L. Printz Award, four YALSA Great Graphic Novels For Teens selections, the Walter Dean Myers Award, and is a two-time finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He has discussed his work at the United Nations, as well as on MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show and CNN.He lives in Bloomington, Indiana.www.seemybrotherdance.org
