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Book

Drawn to Berlin : comic workshops in refugee shelters and other stories from a New Europe

Call Number

  • GRAPHIC NOVEL 921 F5531 (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

Seattle, WA : Fantagraphics Books, 2018.

Physical Description

196 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm

Summary

Ali Fitzgerald is an artist trying to find herself in a rapidly changing city facing an influx of asylum seekers. In Berlin, she teaches an art class to displaced people who have traveled from war-torn countries such as Syria and Afghanistan. Given Fitzgerald's encouragement, her students take pen in hand and express their painful memories of home and cautious optimism about their new life. Revealing the humanity behind the politics of immigration, Drawn to Berlin is about loss, community, and the art that binds people together.

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