![]() A book doesn’t become a National Book Award finalist if its not being talked about. WW Norton rightfully provided heavy promotion, and people noticed and talked about it. It was reported on in The New York Times and USA Today. Stitches has been reviewed and talked about extensively. He withdrew into his drawings and fantasies, acted out at schools until expelled, and finally found his way into the chair of a therapist with the honesty and heart to tell him his mother didn’t love him. Through this experience he developed a love of art, literature, and escape. The surgery gave him a line of stitches from his ear to the top of his sternum, and left him as silent as his parents had always wished him. The tumor, ignored to the point that he lost half his vocal cords and therefore his voice, was finally removed. ![]() ![]() ![]() Treated as a baby by his father, a radiologist, with X-rays for a breathing difficulty, Small later developed cancer in his throat when a teenager. More interested in their own lives, their own attempts to escape themselves and each other, his parents treated Small and his brother as less than afterthoughts, more than annoyances. As a child he received the gags that narcissistic and bitter parents apply. Stitches by David Small is an illustrated memoir of incredible power. ![]()
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