Spring Rain: A Graphic Memoir of Love, Madness, and Revolutions - Softcover

Warner, Andy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1250165970 ISBN 13: 9781250165978

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin, 2020

Synopsis

In 2005 Andy Warner traveled to Lebanon to study literature in Beirut, one of the world’s most cosmopolitan and storied cities. Twenty-one years old and recently broken up from his girlfriend, Warner feels his life is both intense and directionless. Immersing himself in the vibrant and diverse city, he quickly befriends a group of students, many LGBTQ, including both foreigners and Lebanese, straddling different histories and embracing the freedoms of the multicultural city. Warner and his friends dance, do drugs, and hook up, even as violence breaks out in the city - the scars of a fifteen-year civil war reopening with a series of political assassinations and bombings. As street protests grow and the city is rocked by political violence, Warner feels his grasp on reality slowly begin to slip as he confronts traumas in his past and anxiety over his future. Illustrated in beautiful and intricate detail, Spring Rain is an absorbing and poignant graphic memoir of a young man’s attempt to gain control over his life as well as a portrait of a city and a nation’s struggle to define its future in the predawn of the Arab Spring.

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About the Author

Andy Warner is the New York Times best-selling author of Brief Histories of Everyday Objects and This Land is My Land. His nonfiction comics have been published by Slate, Fusion, American Public Media, the United Nations, and The Nib, where he was a contributing editor. He teaches cartooning at Stanford University and the Animation Workshop in Denmark, makes comics in a garret room in South Berkeley, and comes from the sea.

Edition details

• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1250165970
• ISBN 13: 9781250165978
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208