The Talk - from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize

A pressing graphic memoir on ''the talk'' in which parents must break it to Black children that the world hates them, from the only winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning ''Bell is the Ta-Nehisi Coates of comics'' Garry Trudeau, creator of Doonesbury Darrin Bell was six years old when he had The Talk: his mother told him he couldn''t have a realistic water gun. She said she feared for his safety, that police tend to think of little Black boys as older and less innocent than they really are. Through evocative illustrations and sharp humour, Bell examines how The Talk shaped intimate and public moments from childhood to adulthood. While coming of age in Los Angeles - and finding a voice through cartooning - Bell becomes painfully aware of being regarded as dangerous by white teachers, neighbours and police officers, and thus of his mortality. Drawing attention to the brutal murders of African Americans, and showcasing revealing insights and cartoons along the way, he brings us up to the moment of reckoning when people took to the streets protesting the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. And now Bell must decide whether he and his own six-year-old son are ready to have The Talk. ''You won''t be able to put it down'' Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home

Report

Darrin Bell has produced another American classic... An expressive and direct work about racism's impact, and the problems we have discussing it Guardian, *Best Graphic Novels of the Year*

Product details

• Authors: Darrin Bell
• Publisher: JONATHAN CAPE
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.06.2023
• EAN: 9781787334526
• ISBN: 978-1-78733-452-6
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 190 mm x 265 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Relating to African American people, Teenagers: advice for parents, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, Racism and racial discrimination, American / British style comic books and graphic novels, Violence, intolerance and persecution in history, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism, Social discrimination and social justice, Relating to African American / Black American people