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"When someone is murdered next door, it changes everything about the way you live your life. When Hugh was ten years old, he walked home from school to find his friends next door crying outside - they had just come home and discovered their mother's body. She had been murdered. Now an adult, Hugh has a happy social life and a successful career as an artist in Oakland, California. But even so he is plagued by anxiety, anger, and panic attacks. As he attends therapy and looks back on his childhood, he comes to realize the trauma and stress that the murder next door had on his life, and how it still affects him today. Does trauma ever go away? Or does it just hang around, in the backs of our minds forever? This thoughtful, powerful memoir explores how one event in childhood can make a permanent mark on someone's life"--
About the author
Hugh D’Andrade is an award-winning illustrator based in Oakland, California. His work has appeared on young adult book jackets, rock posters, magazines, t-shirts, skateboards, and on the occasional gallery wall. Hugh is Creative Director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and he has taught at the California College of Arts & Crafts, and the San Francisco Art Institute. This is his debut graphic novel. Follow the author on Instagram @hughillustration
Summary
When someone is murdered next door, it changes everything about the way you live your life.
When Hugh was ten years old, he walked home from school to find his friends next door crying outside – they had just come home and discovered their mother’s body. She had been murdered.
Now an adult, Hugh has a happy social life and a successful career as an artist in Oakland, California. But even so he is plagued by anxiety, anger, and panic attacks. As he attends therapy and looks back on his childhood, he comes to realize the trauma and stress that the murder next door had on his life, and how it still affects him today.
Does trauma ever go away? Or does it just hang around, in the backs of our minds forever? This thoughtful, powerful memoir explores how one event in childhood can make a permanent mark on someone’s life.
Foreword
- Major review attention
- National media
- Online/social media promotion
- Academic marketing
- Buzz mailings to bookstores and comic book shops for World Environment Day in September.
- Major review attention
- Online/social media promotion
- Academic marketing
- Buzz mailings to bookstores and comic book shops for Mental Health Awareness Month in May
- Potential strategic partnerships: Psychology Today, The National Alliance on Mental Health, PTSD Foundation of America, and more.
- Author regional tour of San Francisco and the West Coast.
- Promotion through the author’s Instagram account: nefarismo
- Bookseller/Library promotions:
- ARC giveaways through the ABA Advance Access Newsletter
- Blad giveaways to librarians and educators at the ALA Annual
- Book giveaways at the Brooklyn Book Festival, and Small Press Expo in Bethesda, MD.
- Graphic novel panels at San Diego ComicCon and other comics festivals.
