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Rosalie Lightning - by Tom Hart (Hardcover)

 Rosalie Lightning - by  Tom Hart (Hardcover)
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<p>"If it's hard to talk about <i>Rosalie Lightning </i>without sounding hyperbolic, it's only because its achievement is so breathtaking: it is the bravest act of writing and bearing witness I expect to see in my lifetime. There aren't words of praise sufficient to this brave, unblinking task. It will comfort the grieving for generations to come; I am profoundly grateful for this book." --John Darnielle, author of <i>Wolf in White Van</i> <p/>"Tom Hart's <i>Rosalie Lightning</i> is honest, searching, burning, and beautiful. Every parent will find a piece of themselves in this unforgettable graphic memoir." --Scott McCloud<i>, author of THE SCULPTOR</i> <p/>"I don't know how Tom Hart was able to make such a stunning, harrowing book out of his devastation and rage; it strikes me as most gracious and humane thing anyone could possibly do. Reading <i>Rosalie Lightning</i> is like standing at the edge of an abyss and watching someone construct a gleaming titanium bridge by sheer, overwhelming force of love." --Lauren Groff, <i> New York Times Bestselling author</i> <p/>"Only a cartoonist of tremendous skill and a father with loads of guts could piece through his heartbreak and come out with such a piece of art. I can't read it without crying." --Austin Kleon, <i> author of Steal Like An Artist<br></i><br>"Tom Hart's black-and-white RL, ... recounts the loss of his 2-year-old daughter Rosalie by building a hill of fragile, elegantly drawn memories around it. It's a bleak and devastating work that shows comics' ability to convey emotion as effectively as any short fiction or literature." --<i>Denver Post</i> <p/>This memoir about the death of his young daughter, is EVERYTHING I WANT IN A GRAPHIC MEMOIR. The writing is excellent. The drawing is raw, efficient, direct. It is honest, truthful, heartbreaking. There's no manipulation, just the facts and the emotions felt. I can't say enough good things about it. I think it's one of the best, not just graphic novels, but books, period, that I have read in a long, long time. People who know me know that I only like about 1/10th of 1% of the graphic novels I see.... --Mimi Pond, author of <i>Over Easy</i> <p/>AMAZING, MOVING, BRILLIANT ... I am truly blown away... Honestly, it has been a very long time since a piece of art slayed me. Thank you. --Jill Ciment, author of <i>Heroic Measures <p/></i>Anyone coping with such loss--meaning a vast readership--will find Hart's expression of pain and heartache to be entirely understandable and entirely appropriate. A bracing, deeply saddening journey into death and loss whose wryly affirmative resolution, 'joy breaking through the storm clouds, ' is nothing but hard won. --<i>Kirkus Reviews </i> <p/><i>Rosalie Lightning</i> is a masterpiece--and a luminous tribute to a brief, beautiful life. --<i>Publishers Weekly </i>(starred review) <p/>A searing read. --<i>BostonGlobe.com </i></p>

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