{"product_id":"worm-a-cuban-american-odyssey-9781250753977","title":"Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"America's illustrator in chief\" (\u003ci\u003eFast Company\u003c\/i\u003e), a stunning graphic memoir of a childhood in Cuba, coming to America on the Mariel boatlift, and a defense of democracy, here and there\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHailed for his iconic art on the cover of \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e and on jumbotrons around the world, Edel Rodriguez is among the most prominent political artists of our age. Now for the first time, he draws his own life, revisiting his childhood in Cuba and his family's passage on the infamous Mariel boatlift. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Edel was nine, Fidel Castro announced his surprising decision to let 125,000 traitors of the revolution, or \"worms,\" leave the country. The faltering economy and Edel's family's vocal discomfort with government surveillance had made their daily lives on a farm outside Havana precarious, and they secretly planned to leave. But before that happened, a dozen soldiers confiscated their home and property and imprisoned them in a detention center near the port of Mariel, where they were held with dissidents and criminals before being marched to a flotilla that miraculously deposited them, overnight, in Florida. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough vivid, stirring art, \u003ci\u003eWorm\u003c\/i\u003e tells a story of a boyhood in the midst of the Cold War, a family's displacement in exile, and their tenacious longing for those they left behind. It also recounts the coming-of-age of an artist and activist, who, witnessing American's turn from democracy to extremism, struggles to differentiate his adoptive country from the dictatorship he fled. Confronting questions of patriotism and the liminal nature of belonging, Edel Rodriguez ultimately celebrates the immigrants, maligned and overlooked, who guard and invigorate American freedom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Edel Rodriguez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Metropolitan Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/07\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.10h x 7.50w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250753977\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Pura Belpre Award - Honor Book\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2023 pg. 17\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/18\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2023 pg. 123\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2023 pg. 53\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdel Rodriguez\u003c\/b\u003e is a Cuban American artist who has exhibited internationally with shows in New York, Los Angeles, Havana, Berlin, La Paz, Cape Town, Prague, and London. A regular contributor to the\u003ci\u003e New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, he has created over two hundred magazine and book covers and illustrated ten children's books, including \u003ci\u003eSonia Sotomayor: A Judge Grows in the Bronx\u003c\/i\u003e, and is the author of \u003ci\u003eSergio Jumps\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSergio Saves the Game\u003c\/i\u003e. Rodriguez's artwork is collected by various institutions, including the Smithsonian Institution, and has received numerous awards from the Art Directors Club and the Society of Illustrators. \u003ci\u003eWorm\u003c\/i\u003e is his first graphic novel. He lives in New Jersey.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Metropolitan Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":42365509369971,"sku":"9.78125E+12","price":33.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_1ab9f8ac-633f-4538-a76a-03c0e1f45bd5.jpg?v=1727909513","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/worm-a-cuban-american-odyssey-9781250753977","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}