Fights: One Boy's Triumph Over Violence OGN
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| Writer | Joel Christian Gill |
| Artist | Joel Christian Gill |
| Cover Price | $7.15 |
Fights is the visceral and deeply affecting memoir of artist/author Joel Christian Gill, chronicling his youth and coming of age as a Black child in a chaotic landscape of rough city streets and foreboding backwoods.
Propelled into a world filled with uncertainty and desperation, young Joel is pushed toward using violence to solve his problems by everything and everyone around him. But fighting doesn’t always yield the best results for a confused and sensitive kid who yearns for a better, more fulfilling life than the one he was born into, as Joel learns in a series of brutal conflicts that eventually lead him to question
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The Graphic Library - Sara Campbell
Feb 04, 2021It would be tempting not to include this book because of these difficult topics and the fear of what they might bring, but censoring a story as raw and real as this, with situations our students are unfortunately facing or have faced in their lives, means we would be telling them that their entire lives are not appropriate. This book makes us uncomfortable, and it's meant to. Gill's ending message is that he has done all the fighting and suffering so that his kids won't have to. If we shy away from the topics of this book, we may not be able to break the cycles that continue to subject children to this type of violence. Read Full Review
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