Curses by Kevin Huizenga

Curses by Kevin Huizenga

With a New Preface by the author>

Breathe is a parent's unflinching demand, born of inherited trauma and love, for her children's right simply to be possible.--The New York Times

2020 NACP Image Award Nominee - Outstanding Literary Work (Nonfiction) - 2020 Chautauqua Prize Finalist - Best Nonfiction Books of 2019 (Kirkus Reviews) - 25 Can't-Miss Books of 2019 (The Undefeated)

Explores the terror, grace, and beauty of coming of age as a Black person in contemporary America and what it means to parent our children in a persistently unjust world.

Emotionally raw and deeply reflective, Imani Perry issues an unflinching challenge to society to see Black children as deserving of humanity. She admits fear and frustration for her African American sons in a society that is increasingly racist and at times seems irredeemable. However, as a mother, feminist, writer, and intellectual, Perry offers an unfettered expression of love--finding beauty and possibility in life--and she exhorts her children and their peers to find the courage to chart their own paths and find steady footing and inspiration in Black tradition.

Perry draws upon the ideas of figures such as James Baldwin, W. E. B. DuBois, Emily Dickinson, Toni Morrison, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Ida B. Wells. She shares vulnerabilities and insight from her own life and from encounters in places as varied as the West Side of Chicago; Birmingham, Alabama; and New England prep schools.

With original art for the cover by Ekua Holmes, Breathe

offers a broader meditation on race, gender, and the meaning of a life well lived and is also an unforgettable lesson in Black resistance and resilience.

Kevin Huizenga was born in 1977 in Harvey, IL and spent most of his childhood in South Holland, IL, near Chicago. He attended college in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and moved to St. Louis in 2000 where he lives and works. He began drawing comics in high school, xeroxing his first issue (with friends) at the neighborhood Jewel Osco in 1993. Since that time he's made approximately 30 more. In 2001 the Comics Journal named him Minimalism Cartoonist of the Year and called #14 of his Supermonster mini-comic series one of the best comics of any kind released in 2001. His most recent book Gloriana was published in 2012 by Drawn & Quarterly.

DAN ZETTWOCH was born in Louisville, Kentucky--the birthplace of Muhammad Ali and the cheeseburger--in 1977. He studied mathematics and illustration at Washington University. His most recent book Birdseye Bristoe was published in 2012 by Drawn & Quarterly.

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ISBN 13	9781770466951
ISBN 10	1770466959
Title	Curses
Author	Kevin Huizenga
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Drawn and Quarterly
Year published	2024-02-20
Number of pages	144
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