Monday, July 9, 2012

Stitches, by David Small

David Small’s childhood plays out like a black and white movie with plenty of story and characters you will have to see to believe. His mother, and her family, hinge slightly off to the side with self enforced silences and cruel punishments. His father, rarely home, often not seeing the forest for the trees in his young son’s life. And little David who faces childhood illness after childhood illness until he wakes up from a normal operation to find his throat “laced up like a leather boot” and his own voice taken away.

This is a story of personal adventure in the most literal sense, the adventure of family, personal betrayal and finding your own voice when you feel yours has been lost forever. David may never speak again, but that didn’t prevent him from crafting his own story frame by frame.

Reviewed by a staff member, First Regional Library


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