A moving graphic memoir about home, childhood, and family by the author of Storeyville and Pompeii .
Pittsburgh is an extraordinary reimagining of the comics form to depict the processes of memory, and a powerful, searching account of a family taking shape, falling apart, and struggling to reinvent itself, as the city around them does the same..
Santoro, the acclaimed author of Storeyville and Pompeii , has created his masterpiece.
Framed by his parents\' courtship and marriage, and set amid the vital but fading neighborhood streets, the pages of Pittsburgh are filled with details both quotidian and dramatic--from his childhood mishaps to his father\'s trauma in Vietnam--interspersed throughout with the mute witness of the family dog, Pretzel.
Using markers, pencils, scissors, and tape, with a variety of papers, drawing in vivid colors and exuberant lines, Santoro constructs a multi-generational retelling of their lives.
The result is this book.
Stuck in the middle, he tries to understand.
Frank Santoro faces a straightforward yet heart-rending reality: His parents, once high-school sweethearts, now never speak to each other--despite working in the same building.
Pittsburgh is the story of a family, and a city.
A moving graphic memoir about home, childhood, and family by the author of Storeyville and Pompeii
