My Favorite Thing Is Monsters (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781606999592)

Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late '60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is the fictional graphic diary of 10-year-old Karen Reyes, filled with B-movie horror and pulp monster magazines iconography. Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, while the interconnected stories of those around her unfold. When Karen's investigation takes us back to Anka's life in Nazi Germany, the reader discovers how the personal, the political, the past, and the present converge.

Author: Emil Ferris
ISBN-10: 1606999591
ISBN-13: 9781606999592
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Language: English
Published: 02/14/2017
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
Weight: 3.10lbs
Size: 10.70h x 8.00w x 1.50d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/13/2017
Library Journal 06/01/2017 pg. 85