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Polar Vortex

by Denise Dorrance

  • The Experiment
  • 2024
  • ISBN: 978-1615199051
  • 245 pages
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Polar Vortex
About the Book

For fans of Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, a poignant, stirring graphic memoir--both heartbreaking and darkly funny--that perfectly captures the grief, nostalgia, and chaos of traveling home to care for an elderly parent in crisis. ebook icon

A New York Public Library 2024 Best New Comics for Adults | Hollywood Reporter Best Comics of 2024 | Winner of the LDComics Rosalind B. Penfold Prize | Short-listed for the Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition
Denise Dorrance
About the Author

American-born cartoonist and illustrator, Denise Dorrance. worked in magazines in New York for twelve years (including at Cosmopolitan under Helen Gurley Brown) before moving to London in 1993. Her cartoons have run for decades in many publications, including the Mail on Sunday (UK). Polar Vortex is her first graphic novel. In the UK, it was shortlisted for the 2020 Myriad First Graphic Novel competition and won the LDComics 2020 Rosalind B. Penfold Prize.

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