
Visitations
Farrar Straus & Giroux · Print & ebook · December 17, 2024
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- Who it’s for
- A haunting, hopeful graphic novel holds family, mental illness, and religion in uneasy, thoughtful company.
- Themes
- Family dynamics, Mental illness, Faith and truth
- Pacing
- Fast
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Inspired by true events, this haunting yet hopeful young adult graphic novel weaves together family dynamics, mental illness, and religion—perfect for fans of Hey, Kiddo. Corey’s mom has always made him feel safe. Especially after his parents’ divorce, and the dreaded visitations with his dad begin. But as Corey grows older, he can’t ignore his mother’s increasingly wild accusations. Her insistence that God has appointed Corey as his sister’s protector.
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Her declaration that Corey’s father is the devil. Soon, she whisks Corey and his sister away from their home and into the boiling Nevada desert. There, they struggle to survive with little food and the police on the trail. Meanwhile, under the night sky, Corey is visited by a flickering ghost, a girl who urges him to fight for a different world—one outside of his mother’s spoon-fed tales, one Corey must find before it’s too late. Drawing inspiration from his own upbringing in the Mormon church, Corey Egbert welcomes readers on an emotionally stirring, nuanced journey into the liminal spaces between imagination and memory, faith and truth.
Faith and Fault Lines
A haunting, hopeful graphic novel holds family, mental illness, and religion in uneasy, thoughtful company.
Come here for
- A nuanced look at faith, truth, memory, and imagination
- Family tensions rendered in graphic-novel form
Expect
- An emotionally stirring, haunting yet hopeful tone
- A young adult story shaped by mental illness and religion
Where it sits
| Mental Illness for Teens | 85% |
|---|---|
| Runaway Stories | 45% |
| YA Graphic Novels | 45% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Graphic Biography
- Religion & Belief
- Depression & Mental Health for Teens
- Authors
- Corey Egbert
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus & Giroux
- Published
- December 17, 2024
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Family dynamics · Mental illness · Faith and truth
- Reading lane
- Graphic Biography