Windows on the world
An undocumented immigrant father has been bussing tables at the famous Windows on the World restaurant to support his family in Mexico. Then, tragedy strikes. His family hears no word for weeks. Refusing to give up hope, they send young Fernando on a quixotic mission across the border to find his fa...
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| Format: | Books Print Book Comic & Graphic Novel |
| Language: | English |
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Seattle, WA :
Fantagraphics Books,
May 2020.
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| Edition: | First Fantagraphics Books edition. |
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| Summary: | An undocumented immigrant father has been bussing tables at the famous Windows on the World restaurant to support his family in Mexico. Then, tragedy strikes. His family hears no word for weeks. Refusing to give up hope, they send young Fernando on a quixotic mission across the border to find his father and bring him home. Along the way, Fernando experiences a warm embrace from fellow immigrants and a cold shoulder from The City That Never Sleeps. |
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| Physical Description: | 243 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 26 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781683963226 1683963229 |
| Author Notes: | Jon Sack is a US- and UK-based artist and writer. He graduated with an MFA from Goldsmiths College in 2006, and his work has been published and covered internationally. His comic books include La Lucha , which is about violence in Juárez and the lawyers working to combat it, and Iraqi Oil For Beginners , about the complicated history of oil in Iraq. Zack Anderson lives mostly in Northern California. |
