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Meadowlark
Meadowlark: A Coming-of-Age Crime Story | Greg Ruth, Ethan Hawke
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From the dream team behind #1 New York Times bestseller Indeh comes a graphic novel following a father and son as they navigate an increasingly catastrophic day. Set against the quiet and unassuming city of Huntsville, Texas, Jack "Meadowlark" Johnson, and his teenage son, Cooper embark on a journey of epic proportions. Told over the course a single day, this electrifying graphic novel recounts Cooper's struggle to survive the consequences of his father's mistakes and the dangers they have brought home to his estranged family. As Cooper and his father desperately navigate cascading threats of violence, they must also grapple with their own combative, dysfunctional, but loving relationship. Drawing on inspiration from the authors' childhoods in Texas, their relationships with their own sons and from ancient myths that resonate throughout the ages, this contemporary crime noir is a propulsive coming-of-age tale of the shattering transition into manhood. While both father and son strive to understand their place in the world and each other's lives, tension and resentment threaten to boil over. As emotionally evocative as it is visually stunning, this captivating graphic novel will appeal to fans of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men and Terrence Malick's Badlands.
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TheLudicReader
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Mehso-so

Our book club at school will be discussing graphic novels tomorrow so I read this one. It‘s a story about a teenager who accompanies his father to his workplace at a jail and all hell breaks loose. It‘s a violent coming of age story about lost dreams. Not really my cup of tea.

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TheLudicReader
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#bookhaul2 #sorrynotsorry
Some for me, some for my class because apparently I want ALL the books.

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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I hope you are out of your slump!! 1y
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vivastory
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This was an impulse checkout while browsing the new releases at the library. Meadowlark is the story of a boxer turned prison guard & father & a prison break that happens while his son is with him. The story itself is pretty run of the mill crime story, but it's the art that makes this a pick. A pleasant way to spend a bit of time this afternoon in between work emails.