{"id":47708,"date":"2021-01-28T11:12:29","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T16:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=47708"},"modified":"2021-01-26T11:11:33","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T16:11:33","slug":"the-parakeet-by-espe-translated-by-hannah-chute-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-parakeet-by-espe-translated-by-hannah-chute-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Parakeet by Esp\u00e9, translated by Hannah Chute [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-47742 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/01\/Parakeet-Espe-BookDragon-586x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"586\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/01\/Parakeet-Espe-BookDragon-586x800.jpg 586w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/01\/Parakeet-Espe-BookDragon.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 586px) 100vw, 586px\" \/>*STARRED REVIEW<\/strong><br \/>\nPenn State University Press, already a publisher of award-winning graphic titles, launches a new imprint, <a href=\"https:\/\/graphicmundi.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Graphic Mundi<\/a>, showcasing comics intent on \u201cdrawing our worlds together.\u201d Among its inaugural line-up is French comics artist Esp\u00e9\u2019s spectacular, autobiographically inspired homage to a childhood haunted by mental illness.<\/p>\n<p>At 8, Bastien already knows his mother has been in so many \u201cpsych homes\u201d that he \u201cwonder[s] if she\u2019s earning points on a rewards card or something.\u201d With Mama often institutionalized, Bastien lives with his father, next door to his maternal grandparents,<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>with whom he also regularly stays. Despite all attempts to protect him, Bastien has seen too much: his mother\u2019s horrific removal in \u201cthe shirt with belts,\u201d her violent hallucinations, her unreachable disconnection. But he also remembers her warm devotion, their delightful outdoor adventures, her lucid moments of such love. His imagination, his friends, his father\u2019s unbending determination will save, at least, the boy\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p>Originally published in France in 2017 and affectingly translated into English by Hannah Chute, Esp\u00e9\u2019s artful volume presents his memories in vibrant chapters, saturated mostly in single colors with shades of oranges and reds reserved mostly for his mother\u2019s illness. Despite the terror of a child witnessing the failure of his mother\u2019s mental healthcare, Esp\u00e9 brilliantly succeeds in creating a tender, gorgeous tribute. The genesis of the title, revealed in the final chapter, proves heartbreakingly bittersweet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/The-Parakeet-\/pid=9742276\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;Graphic Novels,&#8221; <em>Booklist<\/em>, January 1 &amp; 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2017 (France), 2021 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*STARRED REVIEW Penn State University Press, already a publisher of award-winning graphic titles, launches a new imprint, Graphic Mundi, showcasing comics intent on \u201cdrawing our worlds together.\u201d Among its inaugural line-up is French comics artist Esp\u00e9\u2019s spectacular, autobiographically inspired homage to a childhood haunted by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,23,73,107,20,6535,66],"tags":[6608,6668,58,75,9517,10,135,9518,51,7292,9519,39,195],"class_list":["post-47708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-european","category-graphic-novel-manga-manwha","category-memoir","category-nonfiction","category-repost","category-translation","tag-bookdragon","tag-booklist","tag-coming-of-age","tag-death","tag-espe","tag-family","tag-grandparents","tag-hannah-chute","tag-identity","tag-mental-illness","tag-parakeet","tag-parent-child-relationship","tag-suicide"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - 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