7/7/2023 0 Comments Stitches by David Small![]() “When I started making it a graphic, it started coming back,” he says. He’d been having bad dreams and knew he had to write something, but he couldn’t dredge up the memories. No one told him he had cancer- no one told him anything.Īn acclaimed illustrator of children’s books, Small says his early attempts to write his memoir as prose got him nowhere. He underwent not one but two surgeries and woke up missing half his vocal cords, unable to speak. At age 14, his parents finally took him to get the cyst removed. ![]() A doctor friend diagnosed him with a cyst at age 11. When David developed a lump on his neck, no one seemed worried. As a boy, Small had sinus problems his father, a radiologist, treated him with X-rays, state of the art at the time. ![]() The book describes Small’s gothic-horror childhood, his weird, remote parents and deranged grandmother and the catastrophe that shaped his young life. Reached at his home in Menden, in the southwest corner of the state, David Small says, “It’s a gray day in Michigan.” Gray seems appropriate for the conversation somehow, discussing Stitches, Small’s grim, deeply affecting graphic memoir, in bright sunshine would feel wrong. ![]()
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