Hummingbird Heart: A Memoir
From the publisher's website:
Still reeling from the death by suicide of his drug-addicted father,
Travis moves in with his grandmother to become her caretaker as she
battles cancer. Meanwhile, he tries to live a typical teen life of
pulling pranks, occasional shoplifting, dating, and endless drives
through the twisting backroads of Central Massachusetts with Nirvana’s Nevermind as
the soundtrack. When the police intervene after a prank backfires, the
boys realize that their time as children is rapidly disappearing and
they may never fully understand each other as they move apart.
After his Lynd Ward Prize-winning graphic novel, King of King Court,
explored the power that parents hold over their children’s emotional
lives, Travis Dandro employs his signature dream imagery and crass humor
to tell the story of teenage independence and resilience as he prepares
to head off to art school.
Hummingbird Heart is a
detailed and stylish account of a time of great uncertainty. Dandro’s
densely crafted pages create a deeply emotional experience as his story
swings from character confrontation to finely wrought domestic detail—a
slapstick cafeteria-destroying brawl gives way to the beautifully
rendered flight of the impossible hummingbird.
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