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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Rodriguez, Edel.     Subjects     Rodriguez, Edel -- Childhood and youth -- Comic books, strips, etc.     Cuban American artists -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc.     Political refugees -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc.     Political socialization -- Cuba -- History -- 20th century -- Comic books, strips, etc.     Cuba -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Comic books, strips, etc.     Cuba -- Politics and government -- 1959-1990 -- Comic books, strips, etc.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Rodriguez, Edel.       by title:      Worm : a Cuban Ameri...       by call number:      972.91092 R696w     Search the Web     Rodriguez, Edel.     Rodriguez, Edel -- Childhood and youth -- Comic books, strips, etc.     Cuban American artists -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc.     Political refugees -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc.     Political socialization -- Cuba -- History -- 20th century -- Comic books, strips, etc.     Cuba -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Comic books, strips, etc.     Cuba -- Politics and government -- 1959-1990 -- Comic books, strips, etc.       MARC Display

Worm : a Cuban American odyssey / Edel Rodriguez. by Rodriguez, Edel. Metropolitan Books, 2023. Call #: 972.91092 R696w Subjects Rodriguez, Edel -- Childhood and youth -- Comic books, strips, etc.   Cuban American artists -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc.   Political refugees -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc.   Political socialization -- Cuba -- History -- 20th century -- Comic books, strips, etc.   Cuba -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Comic books, strips, etc.   Cuba -- Politics and government -- 1959-1990 -- Comic books, strips, etc. ISBN:  9781250753977 (hc.) Alternate title:  Cuban American odyssey Edition:  1st ed. Description:  293 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. Contents:  Insurrection -- El Gabriel -- The idealogue -- The beret -- Parasite -- The spy -- The kitchen -- Chevrolet -- The plan -- Farewell -- El mosquito -- The wait -- Nature boy --Ref -- New York City -- The return -- Enemy of the people -- The big lie -- The promise. Summary:  "A stunning graphic memoir of a childhood in Cuba, coming to America on the Mariel boatlift, and a defense of democracy, here and there. Hailed for his iconic art on the cover of Time and on jumbotrons around the world, Edel Rodriguez is among the most prominent political artists of our age. Now for the first time, he draws his own life, revisiting his childhood in Cuba and his family's passage on the infamous Mariel boatlift. When Edel was nine, Fidel Castro announced his surprising decision to let 125,000 traitors of the revolution, or "worms," leave the country. The faltering economy and Edel's family's vocal discomfort with government surveillance had made their daily lives on a farm outside Havana precarious, and they secretly planned to leave. But before that happened, a dozen soldiers confiscated their home and property and imprisoned them in a detention center near the port of Mariel, where they were held with dissidents and criminals before being marched to a flotilla that miraculously deposited them, overnight, in Florida. Through vivid, stirring art, Worm tells a story of a boyhood in the midst of the Cold War, a family's displacement in exile, and their tenacious longing for those they left behind. It also recounts the coming-of-age of an artist and activist, who, witnessing American's turn from democracy to extremism, struggles to differentiate his adoptive country from the dictatorship he fled. Confronting questions of patriotism and the liminal nature of belonging, Edel Rodriguez ultimately celebrates the immigrants, maligned and overlooked, who guard and invigorate American freedom"--From publisher. Genre:  Graphic non-fiction. Historical comics. Autobiographical comic books, strips, etc. Comic books, strips, etc. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Tantallon Public Library Adult Graphic Nonfiction 972.91092 R696w Adult books Checked out Aug 12, 2024 Add Copy to MyList

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