The Weight
$49.91
- Paperback
600 pages
- Release Date
2 September 2025
Summary
A rural family’s cycle of love, loss, and renewal, set against the beauty and adversity of mid-century America.
Edie comes into the world calmly as the adults around her rage. Her father is a cruel man who beats her mother regularly, and much of Edie’s young life is spent trying to escape this tyrant. “Why doesn’t she ever cry?…Gives me the creeps.” Of course, being a child means she lives a child’s life; she still has laughter-filled sleepovers and outdoor adventures with the local r…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781770467163 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1770467165 |
| Author: | Melissa Mendes |
| Publisher: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Imprint: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 600 |
| Release Date: | 2 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 216mm |
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Critics Review
The Weight is a gut-wrenching graphic novel with the power of a timeless ballad plaintive and beautiful, shimmering with tenderness and humor.’ James Sturm. ‘Black eyes and pancake breakfasts. Wide open fields and cramped trailers. In The Weight, Melissa Mendes doesn t shy from depicting the quotidean brutalities of lives fenced in tightly by systems and cycles. But she s equally generous in rendering the bright flashes of beauty and joy. We follow the desire paths carved by hungry hearts mistaking oncoming headlights for lucky stars.’ Laura Park
Melissa Mendes
Melissa Mendes grew up in rural Western Massachusetts, where she currently lives and works. She started making comics in 2002 at Hampshire College and got her MFA from the Center for Cartoon Studies in 2010. Melissa was the recipient of the 2010 Xeric comics self-publishing grant for her book Freddy Stories. In 2014 she began creating and self-publishing the Ignatz-nominated comic The Weight, now a graphic novel, inspired by her late grandfather’s life.
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