I Was A Child: A Memoir
by Bruce Eric Kaplan
Blue Rider Press
Trade Paperback
From the publisher's website:
Bruce Eric Kaplan, also known as BEK, is one of the most celebrated and admired cartoonists in America. I Was a Child
is the story of his childhood in suburban New Jersey, detailing the
small moments we all experience: going to school, playing with friends,
family dinners, watching TV on a hot summer night, and so on. It would
seem like a conventional childhood, although Kaplan’s anecdotes are
accompanied by his signature drawings of family outings and life at
home-road trips, milk crates, hamsters, ashtrays, a toupee, a platypus,
and much more. Kaplan’s cartoons, although simple, are never
straightforward; they encompass an easy irony and dark humor that often
cuts straight to the truth of experience. Brilliantly relatable and
genuinely moving, I Was a Child is about our attempts to understand the mysteries that are our parents, our families, and ourselves.
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