Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh

<b>A moving graphic memoir about home, childhood, and family by the author of <i>Storeyville</i> and <i>Pompeii</i>.</b><br><b><br></b><br><i>Pittsburgh</i> is the story of a family, and a city. Frank Santoro faces a straightforward yet heart-rending reality: His parents, once high-school sweethearts, now never speak to each other—despite working in the same building. Stuck in the middle, he tries to understand. The result is this book.<br><br>Using markers, pencils, scissors, and tape, with a variety of papers, drawing in vivid colors and exuberant lines, Santoro constructs a multi-generational retelling of their lives. Framed by his parents’ courtship and marriage, and set amid the vital but fading neighborhood streets, the pages of <i>Pittsburgh</i> are filled with details both quotidian and dramatic—from his childhood mishaps to his father’s trauma in Vietnam—interspersed throughout with the mute witness of the family dog, Pretzel.<br><br>Santoro, the acclaimed author of <i>Storeyville</i> and <i>Pompeii</i>, has created his masterpiece. <i>Pittsburgh</i> is an extraordinary reimagining of the comics form to depict the processes of memory, and a powerful, searching account of a family taking shape, falling apart, and struggling to reinvent itself, as the city around them does the same.