AMERICAN WIDOW

Book ID/图书代码： 01240008B22884

English Summary/英文概要： On September 10, 2001, Eddie Torres started his dream job at Cantor Fitzgerald in the North Tower of the World Trade Center. The next morning, he said goodbye to his 7½-months-pregnant wife, Alissa, and headed out the door.
In an instant, Alissa’s world was thrown into chaos. Forced to deal with unimaginable challenges, Alissa suddenly found herself cast into the role of “9/11 widow,” tossed into a storm of bureaucracy, politics, patriotism, mourning, consolation, and, soon enough, motherhood.
Beautifully and thoughtfully illustrated, American Widow is the affecting account of one woman’s journey through shock, pain, birth, and rebirth in the aftermath of a great tragedy. It is also the story of a young couple’s love affair: how a Colombian immigrant and a strong-minded New Yorker met, fell in love, and struggled to fulfill their dreams. Above all, American Widow is a tribute to the resilience of the human heart and the very personal story of how one woman endured a very public tragedy.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 2001年9月10號，艾迪在世貿大樓裡的美國投資公司Cantor Fitzgerald開始他的新工作。然而工作的第二天卻因911事件永遠離開他懷孕七個半月的愛妻艾莉莎！
此書記錄了年輕的艾莉莎突然成為了”911寡婦”，從震驚、混亂、傷心、生產到最後走出陰霾獲得新生的過程。這同時也是一個美麗的愛情故事，兩個年輕人在紐約相遇、陷入愛河、努力達成夢想。即使人生永遠不知下一瞬間會有何變化，但仍然都會有希望。
韓裔畫家Sungyoon Choi以黑、白以及藍色的色調畫出這個動人的故事。
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Awards/获奖情况：“[A] raw, occasionally maddening, bracing graphic memoir… Unbearably moving.” – The New York Times Book Review Full review
’American Widow’ pours out 9/11 grief in graphic images’—USA Today
“A moving story that you can’t put down. As a bonus, Choi’s illustration moves the story strongly.” --Harvey Pekar, author of American Splendor
“Reading it, you feel that Torres could be your friend or neighbor; she makes an epic tragedy intimate.” – Newsday
“This deeply personal book is at times raw, angy, bleak and lyrical… [a] heartfelt look at the universality in one woman’s loss.” – Publishers Weekly
"An emotionally-charged visual document that doesn’t pave over the ambivalence and complexity of life’s mixed messages. Torres and Choi’s approach to comics, like Torres’ approach to life, is filled with twists, turns, and unexpected revelations." --Scott McCloud, author of Zot! and Understanding Comics
"American Widow" is optimistic, uplifting, and inspirational to all of us who have lost a loved one unexpectedly and under circumstances that will never make sense. Alissa Torres captures the chaos and confusion that followed 9/11 while honoring the beautiful legacy of her young husband and the thousands of others who were killed on that sad and tragic September day. -- Carla Fine, author of No Time to Say Goodbye: Surviving the Suicide of a Loved One

About the Author/作者介绍： Alissa Torres lives in New York with her family.
Choi is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York City and has produced short comics as well as illustrations for The New York Times.
Sungyoon Choi網頁：http://www.choiarts.com/index.html

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