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David Small - a best-selling and highly regarded childrens book illustrator - comes forward with this unflinching graphic memoir. Remarkable and intensely dramatic - Stitches tells the story of a fourteen-year-old boy who awakes one day from a supposedly harmless operation to discover that he has been transformed into a virtual mute-a vocal cord removed - his throat slashed and stitched together like a bloody boot. From horror to hope - Small proceeds to graphically portray an almost unbelievable descent into adolescent hell and the difficult road to physical - emotional - and artistic recovery. A National Book Award finalist; winner of the ALAs Alex Award; a #1 New York Times graphic bestseller; Publishers Weekly and Washington Post Top Ten Books of the Year - Los Angeles Times Favorite Book - ALA Great Graphic Novels - Booklist Editors Choice Award - Huffington Post Great Books of 2009 - Kirkus Reviews Best of 2009 - Village Voice Best Graphic Novel - finalist for two 2010 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards (Best Writer/Artist: Nonfiction; Best Reality-Based Work)....