Travesia: A Migrant Girl''s Cross-Border Journey

A poignant bilingual YA graphic novel about a teenage girl's harrowing experience crossing the Mexico-US border.

About the author

Michelle Gerster is an American photojournalist, videographer, and ESL educator based out of Oakland, California, after living in Oaxaca, Mexico. Her work focuses on social justice in relation to immigration and deportation. Her photojournalism on deportation from the US to Mexico received the PROOF Emerging Photojournalist Award honourable mention. Travisía is her first book.

Fiona Dunnett is a Canadian illustrator whose work draws inspiration from having lived and worked in Oaxaca, Mexico. She has done group and solo exhibitions around Mexico and Canada, and was a semifinalist for the Adobe Design Achievement Awards in 2018. Travesía is her first book.

Product details

• Assisted by: Fiona Dunnett (Illustration), Dunnett Fiona (Illustration)
• Authors: Michelle Gerster
• Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 30.04.2021
• Subject: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > Art, music
• EAN: 9781551528366
• ISBN: 978-1-55152-836-6
• Pages: 72
• Age Recommendation: from age 12
• Subjects: FICTION / Historical / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / General, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Nonfiction / General, Art: general interest (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage general interest: Art & artists