Ask a Bookseller: What does it mean to be a monster?
Emil Ferris's graphic novel "My Favorite Thing is Monsters" made a splash when came out in 2017, and it's still Richard Johnston's favorite title to recommend."I'm always amazed when people don't know it because I love it so much," says Johnston, who runs Brookings Book Company in Brookings, S.D. The second in the two-part series is now also available.It's the story of 10-year-old Karen Reyes, set in a racially charged 1960s' Chicago. Karen is bright and artistic, but she sees herself as a social outcast and a monster among her school peers. She fills her notebooks with drawings of monsters…
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