They were once considered an indulgence for children, a cheap, meaningless entertainment meant to be grown out of. Stitches has been translated into seven different languages and published in nine different countries.Since they first rose to popularity in the 1930s, comics have been a staple of the literary landscape. Stitches was a 2010 Alex Awards recipient. It was also a finalist for the 2009 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. It was a #1 New York Times Best Seller, and was named one of the ten best books of 2009 by Publishers Weekly and. Stitches was reviewed by the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. When the world became too much for the extremely talented Small to handle, he would escape into his own world of sketches and drawings. From there things began to stack up as his parents' hidden distress and anger started to seep through in fits of sadness and rage directed towards him. He was fourteen, and had not been told that the radiation had given him cancer and was expected to die. Years after the diagnosis, Small awoke from this supposedly harmless operation to discover that he had been transformed into a virtual mute-one of his vocal cords had been removed along with the growth. While still at a young age, a growth began to form on Small's neck. His father was a radiologist who, following the practice of the day, through x-rays and radiation therapy exposed his son to massive doses of radiation. As a young boy Small was plagued with reoccurring respiratory problems. Small's family-on the surface a model of 1950's-style middle class contentment and success-was a tinderbox of closeted feelings and mental repression. The book is set in Detroit, Michigan, where Small spent his childhood. It tells the story of Small's journey from sickly child to cancer patient, to the troubled teen who made a risky decision to run away from home at sixteen-with nothing more than the dream of becoming an artist. Stitches: A Memoir is a graphic memoir written and illustrated by David Small.
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